Discuss any four of the six suggestions given in the textbook for making your speech
interesting. Briefly explain each.
What will be an ideal response?
(1 ) Present information that relates to your audience?s interests. Present information that
that has a close relationship to your audience. Also knowing why you are interested in
the topic helps you to understand why they may be interested. (2 ) Use
attention-catching supporting material. Give examples and analogies that give the big
picture. (3 ) Establish a motive for your audience to listen to you. (4 ) Use words well. Use
vivid language, such as word pictures, to help the audience imagine your topic. (5 )
Create interesting presentation aids. Use the best visual aids for accomplishing your
specific purpose. Modern technology has given us many more choices for visual aids.
(6 ) Use humor wisely by using it to make a point, making yourself the butt of the joke,
using humorous quotations, and using cartoons.
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Which of the following is an example of an artifact?
A. money B. jewelry C. education D. friends
According to your textbook, which of the following is a demographic characteristic of a speech audience?
A. knowledge about the subject B. group membership C. interest in the topic D. physical setting E. attitude toward the speaker
Carol's reference to the impact of visitors to the Rocky Mountains in her speech about the fragile eco-system of the mountains is considered a(n) ____
A) general example B) specific example C) hypothetical example D) irrelevant example
Uses and Gratifications Theory has been criticized
A. for its notion of the active audience B. because it has strayed too far from the limited effects paradigm C. for its emphasis on the use of symbols, not on how people use information from the media D. because its assumptions focus on producers of media content and not on audience members