Informative Speech Concepts

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For an informative speech to connect with listeners, it needs to have three qualities: be meaningful, be clear, and be well argued.

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a. True

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The main point of brainstorming is to select the specific topic you will talk about in your speech.

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a. True

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Testimony dramatizes a topic and helps the audience identify with the speaker's ideas.

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a. True

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Transitions is the formal term for a word, phrase, or sentence used throughout a speech to mark locations in the organization and clearly link the parts of a speech together.

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a. True

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In an outline, subordinate points are those that are under the main points, and provide evidence and information that support your main ideas.

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a. True

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Brainstorming techniques are used twice as you develop your speeches: first for identifying possible speech topics and later for coming up with material to use in your presentation.

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a. True

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Information found in an encyclopedia is an example of a primary source.

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b. False

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Speakers often use analogies to help an audience understand something new to them.

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a. True

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Where and when you are giving a speech has very little to do with selecting your topic.

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b. False

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At the end of your working outline, you should list the references for your speech—the sources of all the supporting material you included.

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a. True