Essential Terms

This principle ensures that using similar grammatical structures for main points makes them predictable and easy for the audience to remember.

This practice involves taking a specific, small passage or a single idea from a source and restating it entirely in your own words, usually maintaining a similar length to the original.

In this policy claim, the aim is simply to change or reinforce the audience's thinking on a proposition.

These listeners primarily focus on the speaker's feelings and emotional state. They listen to build or maintain a relationship.

Informative speeches that focus on specific individuals or groups, often highlighting their contributions or life stories.

This includes external sounds or environmental factors that distract the listener.

This encompasses the environmental factors where the speech occurs, including the size of the room, the arrangement of the seating, the acoustics and potential for background noise, the room's temperature, lighting, technology, and the distance between the speaker and the audience.

This includes distractions caused by the listener's own body or physical state.

This is any time the speaker uses ideas or a set of words that belong to another author without giving credit to the original author.

A strong, balanced, and upright stance communicates authority and confidence.