What is symmetry, and what should guide a speaker's efforts to achieve it?
What will be an ideal response?
The best answers will:
1. define symmetry as "using a balanced approach to developing and presenting ideas in a speech so that each ideas is developed with a similar level of elaboration." Outstanding answers will explain that symmetry is important in demonstrating that a speaker has done thorough research and is doing due-diligence to the topic for the listeners.
2. use critical thinking to provide advice for achieving symmetry, such as:
• doing thorough research
• acknowledging that some points may require slightly more emphasis than others, but that there should be a general sense of balance
• choosing fewer main points, to explore in greater depth, than many, sprawling points that will only then receive minimal treatment
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What will be an ideal response?
A recap of what the speaker has said is called a _____
a. summary b. main point c. verbal transition d. complexity
A meta-message is defined as the message about the __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Poetry that has repeating sounds, for example at the end of stanzas, is __________
A. rhyming B. rhythmic C. melodic D. a sonnet