MIni test _Public speaking

Specific purpose: To convince your listeners that they need a savings plan for

retirement. What kind of general purpose?

• To inform

• To entertine

• To persuade

Read the specific purpose and choose the correct general purpose:

To explain how you can fix a leaky faucet

• To inform

• To entertine

• To persuade

There are 7 essential steps in planning, preparing and presenting a speech.

• True

• False

Demographic analysis of audience includes: values, gender and attitudes

• True

• False

ANALYZING YOUR AUDIENCE PSYCHOLOGICALLY Includes: values, attitudes and beliefs

• True

• False

______ order ideas in a time sequence—more or less as you

naturally order your day or week.

• Casual pattern

• Chronological pattern

• spatial pattern

• inquiry pattern

Prolem-solution shows a relationship between causes and

effects.

• True

• False

Familiarity–acceptance order begins with what the audience knows or believes

(the familiar) and moves on to new or challenging ideas (the unfamiliar).

• True

• False

speech-centered patterns—that is, these patterns of organization are based on the ways that people think

• True

• False

Speech-centered patterns—that is, they are traditional organizational patterns based on the content of the speech.

• True

• False