1. The best place to reassure your listeners that you are well prepared and that you are not going to waste their time is in the material.: Orienting
2. For a classroom speech, "Animals in America" would be a topic that
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1. The best place to reassure your listeners that you are well prepared and that you are not going to waste their time is in the material.: Orienting
2. For a classroom speech, "Animals in America" would be a topic that is: too broad
3. The three most popular types of speeches are informative, entertaining, and: persuasive
4. A speaker says, "What I am going to explain now will help you understand the rest of the speech." Which device is the speaker using?: a spotlight
5. In brainstorming, you should: produce a flurry of ideas without any initial criticism.
6. It is possible for an introduction to be too short.: True
7. Main points are designed to help the audience understand and remember-
: The central idea
8. "I will discuss robots as surgeons" is an effective example of a central idea: False
9. Bizarre clothing worn by the speaker is an example of: interference
10. Which organizational pattern is especially popular in persuasive speech- es: problem-solution
11. A speaker who blames doctors for the rise in lung cancer deaths is engaging in: scapegoating
12. In the informative speech, your overriding concern is to win the listeners to your way of thinking.: False
13. Ed's objective for his speech is to get listeners to stop a certain behavior. What is his general purpose?: to persuade
14. A speaker says, "Please raise your hands to answer this: How many of you know how to swim?" What kind of question is this speaker using?: - overt-response
15. Issuing an appeal or a challenge at the end of a speech is an example of: a clincher
16. Which part of the speech does the text recommend that you create first?: the body
17. In the speech communication process, anything that blocks or hinders the communication of a message
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