Comp/Speech pg 421-432
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- Public Speaking
- form of communication where the speaker tries to make the audience react in a certain way through oral language
- Purposes of Public Speaking (5)
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Inform
Persuade
Entertain
Inspire
Agreement - Five Arts
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creating/discovering good ideas
selecting and organizing
using language
memory
delivery - Delivery
- use of voice and body to make words effective
- 3 categories of stage fright symptoms
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Speaking mechanism
Physical
Mental - Speaking Mechanism (5)
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Dry throat/mouth
inability to speak
stuttering/stammering
speed/slow
dificulty breathing - Physical Symptoms (5)
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Stomach tension
Sweating
Heartbeat
Nausea
tremble/twitch - Mental Symptoms (4)
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mental block
scared to look at audience
dread
thinking that listeners aren't approving - How to Manage Stage Fright (7)
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thorough preparation
theory
no unnecessary explanations
composure
be organized
visual aid
rehearsing - Allusion
- a reference in a speech to a familiar person, place, or thing
- Analogy
- a comparison of an unfamiliar idea to a simple, familiar one
- Anecdote
- short story told to illustrate a point
- Antithesis
- balances or contrasts one word or idea against another, usually in the same sentence
- Irony
- using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning, or to show a result that is the opposite of what would be expected or appropriate; an odd coincidence
- negative definition
- describes something by telling what it is NOT rather than, or in addition to, what it is
- parallel structure
- the repeating of phrases or sentences that are similar (parallel) in meaning and structure
- repetition
- the repeating of the same word or phrase to create a sense of rhythm and emphsasis
- Rhetorical Question
- a question that is asked to emphasize a point, not to get an answer