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not overdone, and appropriate for the audience and situation.
Movement (the change of location during a presentation) should be purposeful and
consistent with the verbal portion of your message. Speakers can adapt to the physical
surroundings to get closer to their audience and should also adapt to the cultural
expectations of audience members.
Posture, or the speaker’s stance, is also important because it may reflect on your
credibility. Speakers should avoid slouching, shifts in weight, or drooping their heads. In
an informal presentation, it may be appropriate to perch on the edge of a desk or stool
but not to sit or lean. Your posture should reflect your interest and attention to your
audience and your presentation.
Learning Objective: LO 13.3 Identify and illustrate characteristics of effective nonverbal
delivery.
Topic: Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.73 Explain the importance that facial expression can have in your
delivery.
Answer: Facial expression is the use of the facial muscles to communicate. It plays a
key role in expressing your thoughts, moods, and attitudes. Your facial expressions will
set the tone for your presentation, even before you begin to speak. They should be
appropriate for your message. Facial expressions can be enhanced by rehearsing your
speech in front of a mirror or by videotaping your rehearsal. Evaluate whether or not your
face is reflecting the emotional tone of your ideas.
Learning Objective: LO 13.3 Identify and illustrate characteristics of effective nonverbal
delivery.
Topic: Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.74 What are the five tips the textbook provides for using PowerPoint
effectively?
Answer: Don’t use too many slides; make certain that the slides you do use contain
significant information in a simple, uncluttered style; don’t overuse bulleted text; make
informed decisions about fonts, color, and layout; and finally, practice with your
PowerPoint slides so that you can time them to coincide with your oral presentation.
Learning Objective: LO 13.4 Discuss how to prepare and use presentation aids
effectively.
Topic: Effective Presentation Aids
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.75 Explain the difference between a bar graph, pie graph, and line graph.
Answer: (1) A bar graph is a graph that consists of bars of various lengths that represent
numbers or percentages. It is useful for making comparisons. For example one bar might
show how much money was paid for gas in Chicago, while another bar shows the cost of
gas in St. Louis. (2) A pie graph is a circular graph that shows how data are divided
proportionately. For example, a pie graph could show how much money each
department in a company spent on office products with each “slice” representing one of
the departments. (3) A line graph is a graph that shows trends over a period of time and
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Learning Objective: LO 13.4 Discuss how to prepare and use presentation aids
effectively.
Topic: Effective Presentation Aids
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
13.4 Fill-in–the-Blank
TB_Q13.76 _____ speaking is a delivery style in which the speaker uses an outline
and has rehearsed the presentation so that it can be delivered in a fluent manner.
Answer: Extemporaneous
Learning Objective: LO 13.1 List and describe the four methods of delivery, and provide
suggestions for effectively using each one.
Topic: Methods of Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.77 Words that do not stereotype, discriminate against, or insult any
gender, racial, cultural, or religious group are known as ____ words.
Answer: unbiased
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.78 A __________is a book of synonyms.
Answer: thesaurus
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.79 A colorful word is also called a _____ word.
Answer: vivid
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.80 Metaphors, similes, and personification are forms of _____ language.
Answer: figurative
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.81 Reversing the normal order of words in a phrase or sentence is called
_____.
Answer: inversion
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.82 An overt comparison between two things that uses the word like or as
is called a(n) _____ .
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Answer: simile
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.83 _____ is a figurative device in which a speaker attributes human
qualities to inanimate ideas or things.
Answer: Personification
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.84 The ability to vary your pitch is known as _____.
Answer: inflection
Learning Objective: LO 13.3 Identify and illustrate characteristics of effective nonverbal
delivery.
Topic: Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q13.85 A circular graph that shows how a set of data is divided
proportionately is called a _____ graph.
Answer: pie
Learning Objective: LO 13.4 Discuss how to prepare and use presentation aids
effectively.
Topic: Effective Presentation Aids
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
13.5 Essay Questions
TB_Q13.86 In a well-developed essay, name and define the four delivery styles
recommended by your book. What factors should be taken into account when a
speaker considers which style to use?
Answer: (1) The manuscript speech is a speech that is read from a text. Most people
are not skilled at this type of delivery and sound dull and monotonous, so it should only
be used when necessary. The biggest reason for using a manuscript speech is that it
allows for planning of exact wording. This is sometimes desirable in a very formal
situation, or when the situation is tense or sensitive, and the speaker cannot afford to err.
(2) Memorized delivery is similar to manuscript, except the speech is committed to
memory. It should only be used if the speaker must deliver a short speech within narrow
time limits. It also allows for exact wording, and has the added benefit that eye contact,
TB_Q13.89 Marcus delivers a presentation, but he fails to use any gestures. You
kinds of gestures that clearly coincide with what he is saying. Finally, he should consider
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q13.87 Your friend, Vincent, asks for your advice on polishing his speech. He
has researched and organized his speech well, and practiced it enough to feel
comfortable delivering it, but feels he needs help with his language choices to
make it more interesting and memorable. What advice might you give him
concerning figurative language, drama, and cadence? Explain at least one device
in each of those categories.
Answer: Figurative language creates interest because it deviates from the ordinary,
expected meanings of words. Figurative language involves using metaphors, similes, or
personification. A metaphor is an indirect comparison. A simile is a comparison using like
or as. Personification is giving an object or idea the characteristics of a person.
Drama is created by phrasing something in an unexpected way. Three devices that can
help achieve verbal drama are omission, inversion, or suspension. (1) Omission is
leaving out a word or phrase that the audience expects to hear. (2) Inversion is reversing
the word order of a sentence or phrase, and (3) suspension is withholding a key word or
phrase until the end of the sentence.
Cadence is the rhythm of the speech created through verbal devices. Cadence may be
achieved using such stylistic devices as parallelism, antithesis, repetition, and
alliteration. (1) Parallelism occurs when the grammatical structure of several phrases or
sentences is the same. (2) Antithesis is a two-part parallel structure in which the second
part contrasts in meaning with the first. (3) Repetition of an important word or phrase can
add emphasis to a key idea and memorability to a message. (4) Alliteration is repeating
the initial consonant sound of several words that are in close proximity to one another to
create cadence.
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q13.88 Briefly explain parallelism and provide an example.
Answer: Parallelism occurs when the same grammatical structure is used for two or
more clauses or sentences. While it is similar to antithesis, in parallelism the two
structures do not contrast in meaning. An example of parallelism would be “The recent
rainfall flooded the roadways, loosened the soil, and destroyed our local community.”
Learning Objective: LO 13.2 List and explain five criteria for effective verbal delivery.
Topic: Effective Verbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
delivery.
his audience, the formality of the speaking situation, and the culture-based expectations
of his audience so he can decide on the most appropriate gestures for his specific
audience.
Learning Objective: LO 13.3 Identify and illustrate characteristics of effective nonverbal
delivery.
Topic: Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q13.90 After watching a videotape of her speech, Marisa concludes that her
vocal delivery is monotone and difficult to understand. Using the four aspects of
vocal delivery in your book, give Marisa advice on how she might improve her
vocal delivery.
Answer: First, Marisa might examine the volume of her voice. Was she loud enough to
be heard on the back row? She might also consider softening or increasing the loudness
of her voice to emphasize important moments in her speech. Next, she should examine
her pitch, which is the highness or lowness of her voice. She might ask whether or not
she changed her pitch at different moments in her speech, such as when she asked a
question. She might practice exaggerating her change in pitch and then toning it down
for the actual presentation. Third, she also needs to examine her rate. Was it too fast or
too slow? Did her rate vary? If her rate was too fast, she might consider adding in
pauses to slow it down. Finally, she must look at her articulation or enunciation of
sounds. Were her words crisp and distinct or were they mumbled and slurred? Did she
mispronounce any words. She could slow down and practice saying words clearly and
crisply and then speed up once she gets the hang of it. She could record her voice
several times, listening to and evaluating these areas. She can mark her note cards for
her next speech with delivery cues that will remind her to incorporate these ideas.
Learning Objective: LO 13.3 Identify and illustrate characteristics of effective nonverbal
delivery.
Topic: Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q13.91 Brittany asked you to listen to her rehearse her speech and you
noticed that she said jeet when she meant to say did you eat and gonna when she
meant to say going to. In what area of vocal delivery does Brittany need to
improve and what advice might you provide?
Answer: Brittany needs to improve on her articulation, the enunciation of sounds. Since
she wants her audience to clearly understand her message, she needs to clearly
pronounce her words. She must distinguish between which parts of her nonstandard
articulation may be due to a dialect and which simply are due to a habit of slurring or
mumbling. Good advice would be for Brittany to pay closer attention to the words and
phrases she tends to slur or chop and to practice saying them correctly and distinctly.
Learning Objective: LO 13.3 Identify and illustrate characteristics of effective nonverbal