Using Visual Aids

There are 2 answers:

Which of the following does your textbook mention as an advantage of using visual aids in a public speech?

• Using visual aids enhances the clarity of the speaker’s message

• Using visual aids reduces the need for eye contact with the audience

• Using visual aids can help combat the speaker’s stage fright

• Using visual aids enhances audience's motivation

Which of the following does your textbook present as a guideline for preparing visual aids?

• keep visual aids simple

• keep visuals aids as many as possible

• include a minimum of three fonts

• write words in all capital letters

When using color in a visual aid, you should __________.

• include at least four colors

• add color only in multimedia presentations

• limit your aids to one color

• use color to highlight key points

To be used effectively as visual aids, photographs should be __________.

• supplemented with drawings

• bigger than ordinary prints

• explained with a chart

• passed among the audience

______ are especially valuable for showing an audience statistical trends and patterns.

• Models

• Graphs

• Transparencies

• Blueprints

Which of the following would probably be the best kind of visual aid to demonstrate the five major areas of spending in the federal budget?

• a pie graph

• a diagram

• a line graph

• a photograph

When using visual aids in a speech you should __________.

• draw pictures or charts directly on the chalkboard

• practice with the visual aid when you rehearse your speech

• keep the visual aid on display through the speech

• pass small visual aids among the audience

When using visual aids in a speech, you should __________.

• draw graphs and charts on the whiteboard

• not worry about keeping eye contact with the audience

• avoid passing visual aids among the audience

• keep the aids on display throughout the speech

visual aids are most effective when they are __________.

• shown in the introduction of a speech

• explained clearly

• circulated among the audience

• presented early in the speech

Which of the following is not a visual aid?

• Power Point presentation

• Cloud presentation

• Lecture notes

• Video