COM 130 Final Exam Review

Of the five Canons of Rhetoric, which refers to the discovering of types of evidence and arguments you will use in your speech?

• Arrangement

• Style

• Delivery

• Invention

In several respects, planning and delivering a speech resembles engaging in a particularly important conversation.

• True

• False

This statement concisely identifies to your audience, in a single declarative sentence, what the speech is about:

• Main point

• Presentation aid

• Thesis Statement

• Attention Getter

A preview statement should never give away your thesis and main points because that would be a spoiler.

• True

• False

When citing other people's ideas, you can present them in any of these ways, except...

• As an anonymous source

• A paraphase attributed verbally in the speech

• Direct quotations attributed verbally in the speech

• A summary of someone's ideas or opinions attributed in the speech

What is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience?

• Shared Meaning

• Interpretation

• Intuition

• Acknowledgement

Active listening is focused, purposeful, and works to avoid common obstacles to effective listening.

• True

• False

The practice of active listening consists of the following items except

• Multitasking

• Listening for main ideas

• Setting listening goals

• Watching for nonverbal cues

When using a prop(an object that demonstrates the speaker's points) in most case keep it hidden until you are ready to use it.

• True

• False

Handouts should be given to the audience at the beginning of your speech.

• True

• False