Your professor often goes off on tangents, talking about current events and stories about her weekend instead of discussing the content that is the focus of the day's lesson. Which conversational maxim does your professor violate?
A) quality
B) relation
C) quantity
D) face-saving
B
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Any telecommunication connection using cable laid across the land, buried underground, or suspended from poles is called a
A) landline. B) circuit. C) downlink. D) landlink.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Audience members often assume that they have nothing in common with the speaker or others in the audience. 2. If you can communicate to your audience how they will benefit from what you are saying, you will establish trustworthiness with them. 3. If a speaker can establish credibility in the introduction, it will carry over into the remainder of the speech. 4. Part of establishing an audience adaptation plan is determining what you can do to make it easier for audience members to comprehend and remember the information you will share. 5. Because human experience is universal, identifying culturally sensitive material is relatively easy.
Define and distinguish between informative speeches and persuasive speeches and provide an example of a topic for each. Then, formulate a general and specific purpose for each topic.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is not an example of external noise?
A. audience members talking during a movie B. an accent that makes it hard to understand a speaker C. someone shouting and making gestures outside a window behind the speaker D. loud applause drowning out a speaker