Evaluation standards for assessing the quality of a speech should be based on an understanding of __________.

A. the rhetorical situation and the speaker's purpose
B. audience predispositions and audience feedback
C. speaker's style and speaker's ethos
D. the speech situation and the speech timeframe


Answer: A

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