SPPECH 01_LESSONS 06 & 08

Multiple Choice

Derek was given a speeding ticket by a police officer, and his lawyer has urged him to challenge the ticket as unfair. The lawyer has practiced for 25 years, so Derek chooses to follow his lawyer’s advice because of the rhetorical device of ________________.

• Pathos (the appeal to emotion)

• Main Idea

• Logos (traditionally meaning word, thought, principle, or speech

• Ethos (the writers attempt to persuade by appealing to the reader's moral values)

Multiple Choice

Adrian, an experienced lawyer, delivered a very factual and technical speech about criminal justice reform, but her audience of high school students have no background knowledge. In her planning, Adrian likely misjudged the _______________ of her speech.

• Situation

• Facts

• Audience

• Purpose

Multiple Choice

Stephanie is trying to generate ideas for a speech about how to improve her school, so she writes down a list of ideas her classmates have on how to make their school better. Stephanie’s process of generating ideas is known as _________________.

• Fact-checking

• Rhetorical Device (persuasive device for the purpose of evoking a particular reaction)

• Citations

• Brainstorming

Multiple Choice

You are delivering an informative speech about things to see and do when visiting Missouri.  What evidence might you use to best engage the rhetorical device of pathos with your audience?

 

• advice from a life-long resident and traveler of Missouri

• detailed stories about exploring the wilderness of Minnesota

• data and statistics of tourism in Missouri

• pictures of cute babies playing at Missouri’s tourist destinations

Multiple Choice

Gerald gives a speech at a town meeting about installing a traffic light at an intersection in a neighborhood, but most of his facts are about speeding on the highway. What does Gerald need to make his speech more effective?

 

• A different purpose

• Different enunciation

• A different audience

• Different facts

Multiple Choice

You are delivering an informative speech about things to see and do when visiting Missouri.  What evidence might you use to best engage the rhetorical device of ethos with your audience?

 

 

 

• pictures of cute babies playing at Missouri’s tourist destinations

• data and statistics of tourism in Missouri

• detailed stories about exploring the wilderness of Minnesota

• advice from a life-long resident and traveler of Missouri

Multiple Choice

The term for what you ultimately want a speech to accomplish is

 

• Situation

• Audience

• Context

• Purpose

Multiple Choice

A baby’s cries or a young child saying “please” and “thank you” when they want something are examples of __________________.

• Persuasion

• Citations

• Posture

• Main idea

Multiple Choice

During the delivery of her speech, Tatiana frequently refers to the sources where she received her information.  She mentions these sources within the speech in order to appear credible and factual. In her prepared speech outline, what are these sources called?

 

 

• Emotional Appeal

• Facts

• Logos

• In-Text citations

Multiple Choice

The closing statement of a speech that ties all of the information together, reinforces the main idea, and brings the speech to a strong finish is called the

 

• Thesis (a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved)

• Clincher (is a type of sentence used at the end of a final paragraph to reinforce your main idea and give your reader a sense of finality)

• Support statement

• Hook (is an opening statement (which is usually the first sentence) in an essay that attempts to grab the reader's attention)

Multiple Choice

A polished voice in a speech script begins by choosing words that are ....

 

• Simple

• Precise

• Subjective

• General

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences demonstrates parallelism? (also called parallel structure or parallel construction) is the repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence)

• Opening your mouth a bit wider than normal will help you to slow your rate of speech and to enunciate clearly.

• Opening your mouth a bit wider than normal will help you by slowing your rate of speech and to enunciate clearly.

• Opening your mouth a bit wider than normal will help you -- slowing your rate of speech -- and enunciate clearly.

• Opening your mouth a bit wider than normal will help you slow your rate of speech and enunciating clearly.

Multiple Choice

Support statements in a demonstrative speech serve all of the following purposes EXCEPT

 

• Contradict the purpose of the speech.

• Connect key evidence and examples in the body of the speech to the overriding thesis of the speech

• Transition smoothly and logically from one stage of the process to the next

• Organize the steps of a process into sequential order

Multiple Choice

A demonstrative speech seeks to ...

• Inform the audience with new information about a topic or more deeply understand a topic

• Convince the audience to agree with the speaker’s position or take a particular action

• Inform the audience about how something works or show the audience how something is done

• Reveal to the audience a new product or invention

Multiple Choice

Read the following sentence carefully. 

Margie feels confident as she prepares to give her speech. 

In this sentence, the word “feels” is which type of verb?

 

• action verb

• linking verb

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences demonstrates the use of both action verbs and the active voice? (In the active voice, the subject is performing an action)

• I faced my fears and studied for my quiz.

• I am ready for my quiz to be taken.

• Quizzes can be easy if they’re studied for.

• I feel nervous about taking my quiz.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following terms refers to the feeling a speaker expresses toward the subject of a speech?

• Tone

• Syntax

• Thesis

• Parallelism

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences demonstrates the passive voice? (The subject is now being acted upon by the verb. In other words, the subject is passive)

 

• Questions must be asked before the test booklet is opened.

• You must ask questions before you open your test booklet.

Multiple Choice

All of the following strategies will help you draw attention to an idea in a speech EXCEPT ...

• Use the longest sentences to explain the most important ideas

• Use a short, simple sentence to make a key point stand out

• Use vivid, precise, and expressive word choices

• Use parallel form to present ideas of equal weight and significance

Multiple Choice

In an informative speech, effective supporting evidence will best accomplish which one of the following aims?

 

• Help the audience better understand your information or reasoning

• Convince your audience to agree with your position

• Be entertaining or amusing

• Prove your opponent wrong