Preparing Your First Speech Quiz

leaving too little time for planning and practicing

losing track of the time during the speech

focusing on length rather than quality of the speech

failing to follow assignment instructions

Learn about audience's interests and backgrounds.

Take your audience into consideration when planning your outfit and words.

Use knowledge of the audience to anticipate member's attitudes.

Use context clues to understand why the audience came to hear you speak today.

Choose a topic that interests you

Avoid overused topics

Narrow the topicto fit the time limit of your presentation

See what other people are choosing for a topic in order to not repeat topics and get ideas

A few sentences that outline the speech in the introduction

A single sentence that sums up your main message, narrow topic, and rhetorical purpose

A sentence meant to bring a speech together and lay out the speech's content

A sentence that just gives the topic of the speech.

invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery

invention, rhetoric, memory, organization, language

invention, bias, memory, power, rhetoric

Invention, delivery, rhetoric, arrangement, visuals

introduction, conclusion, subpoints

point, subpoint, conclusion

introduction, body, conclusion

thesis, conclusion, body

Facts, Incidents, Reasons, Examples, Statistics

Facts, Inventions, Rhetoric, Examples, Statistics

Facts, Introduction, Reasons, Exacting, Speech

Faces, Intent, Reasons, Examples, Statistics

Summary of main points

A quote or statistic that adds detail

A vivid closing sentence or paragraph

Between main points

Between the final main point and the conclusion

Between the introduction and first main point

Between the subpoints in the body paragraphs

Go to a fun event the night before to ease nerves and keep you up late.

Get enough sleep so you feel refreshed.

Avoid excess sugars and caffeine before a speech.

Manage outside commitments before tackling the speech.