Speech Vocabulary

Front

logos

Back

A rhetorical appeal that relies on logic to influence the listener.

Front

pathos

Back

A rhetorical appeal that generally focuses more on emotion rather than facts.

Front

ethos

Back

A rhetorical appeal that uses credibility to get its point across.

Front

entertaining speech

Back

A speech generally designed to hold the audience’s attention and provide amusement or pleasure.

Front

informational speech

Back

A speech that has a great deal of facts with the goal of educating the audience.

Front

instructional speech

Back

A speech that makes a concept or a process understandable by explaining what it is, how it is done, or how it operates.

Front

persuasive speech

Back

A type of speech used to try and convince the audience of a particular opinion.

Front

body language

Back

The process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements.

Front

enunciation

Back

The act of pronouncing words or parts of words clearly.

Front

fluency

Back

The smoothness in which words are joined together during a speech.