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1. Why should presentation aids complement or enhance the speech rather than serve as the
main source of the speaker’s ideas?
2. How can the audience be affected by the use or misuse of presentation aids?
3. Choose two types of pictures (photographs, line drawings, diagrams, maps, or posters)
and define them; then explain a speech topic for which these presentation aids would be
appropriate.
4. Explain the difference between a line graph and a bar graph.
5. What is a pie graph, and when would it be appropriate for use as a presentation aid?
6. Explain and give an example of an appropriate use for a flowchart, an organizational
chart, and a table.
7. How can an audio or video clip enhance a speaker’s main points?
8. When would a flip chart be more suitable than a chalkboard for a presentation aid?
9. Identify one advantage and one disadvantage of handouts as a presentation aid.