Chapter 13 Review - Oral Communication

Which of the following is NOT one of the six C's of informative speaking?

• clear

• concrete

• comfortable

• concise

Which of the following is NOT part of the process of turning a subject into a speech?

• find a subject

• expand your subject

• state your thesis

• support your thesis

a broad area of knowledge

• subject

• topic

TRUE or FALSE: Limiting your subject is helpful because it forces you to say more about less.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Topic or Thesis: Cancer-preventing diets

• Topic

• Thesis

basic building blocks of a speech; true statements (statistics)

• facts

• anecdote

• quotation

• definition

brief story that illustrates a point

• facts

• anecdote

• quotation

• definition

selection of someone else’s words repeated exactly

• facts

• anecdote

• quotation

• definition

the exact meaning of a word or phrase

• facts

• anecdote

• quotation

• definition

 images that stimulate the audience’s imagination

• facts

• anecdote

• description

• definition