Types of Speech Flashcards
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What are the types of speech according to purpose?
Expository/Informative, Persuasive, Entertainment speech.
What is public speaking?
Act of speaking in front of a sizable number of people.
Speeches can be classified into 2 ways; according to _____ and according to ______.
purpose, delivery.
This type of speech is given to provide the audience with information regarding a topic or to expand their knowledge about a topic that they are already familiar with.
Expository or Informative speech.
What are the kinds of expository speech?
Description, Explanation, Demonstration, or a Reportorial Speech.
This provides a VIVID picture of a person, place or object. It is a speech that provides an IMAGE.
Description speech.
What is an Explanation Speech?
EXPLAINS or DEFINES a concept or an abstract topic. Provides facts, examples, etc.
This kind of speech PRESENTS information about how to do something or how something is done. It gives the audience detailed information to achieve a task.
Demonstration speech.
Similar to a REPORT or newscast, this serves to describe an EVENT or issue that is INTERESTING, significant, or unusual.
Reportorial speech.
What are the characteristics of an expository speech?
Credible, Accurate, Clear, Memorable.
MACC
What is a persuasive speech?
Aims to INFLUENCE THE AUDIENCE to accept the speaker’s position.
What are the 2 kinds of persuasive speeches?
Convincing speech, Actuation speech.
Designed to URGE the audience to TAKE ACTION.
Actuation speech.
This persuasive speech is the type where the speaker attempts to convince the audience to adopt his way of thinking or change the way they THINK.
Convincing speech.
What are the rhetorical appeals in persuasive speeches?
Ethos, Pathos, Logos.
Which philosopher wrote the book Rhetoric?
Aristotle.
What is ethos?
Appeal to the speakers credibility or authority.
What is pathos?
Appeal to the audience’s emotions.
This is an appeal to logic or reason.
Logos.
This is the type of speech that aims to AMUSE the audience and put them in a happy mood.
Entertainment.
ps. Ent. speech can also inform or persuade but its main focus is entertainment.
What are the types of speech according to delivery?
Manuscript, Memorized, Impromptu.
____ speech is done when a speaker reads a PREPARED text or MAUSCRIPT to the audience.
Manuscript speech.
Used by public figured, media personalities, and spokespersons.
Manuscript speech.
What is a memorized speech?
Required you to commit our speech to memory.
