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WorksheetsPersuasive Speech Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Define persuasion.
How an audience regards a speaker’s intelligence, expertise, and knowledge of the subject.
Credibility of a speaker before they start to speak.
The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
The act of creating, reinforcing, or altering people’s beliefs or actions.
The mental give-and-take between the speaker and listener during a persuasive speech is called:
Creating Common Ground
Mental Dialogue with the Audience
Competence
Persuasion
The section of the whole audience that the speaker most wants to persuade is called the:
Derived credibility
Audience
Common Ground
Target audience
A firm belief is called a:
Confliction
Convention
Conviction
Contrition
Effective persuasion often requires:
Soaking in everything the speaker has to say.
Increased resistance to your point of view.
An emotional appeal.
An emotional apple.
Speaking with sincerity and conviction is one way to:
Draw a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Make an emotional appeal.
Accept what the speaker says.
Eat a lobster.
How an audience regards a speaker's intelligence, expertise, and knowledge of a subject is called:
Character
Common Ground
Credibility
Competence
How an audience regards a speaker’s sincerity, trustworthiness, and concern for the well-being of the audience is called:
Character
Competence
Credibility
Common Ground
Reasoning is:
The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
The credibility of a speaker produced by everything they say or do during the speech.
How an audience regards a speaker’s intelligence, expertise, and knowledge of the subject.
A technique in which a speaker connects himself or herself with the values, attitudes, or experiences of the audience is called:
Citing evidence
Creating an emotional appeal
Reasoning
Creating common ground
