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1.
To ______ is to communicate knowledge.
2.
An informative speech seeks to enlighten rather than ______.
3.
A speaker should gauge the listeners’ existing knowledge of the topic and likely interests
and ________ respective to it.
4.
_________ speeches may be about objects or phenomena, people, events, processes,
concepts, or issues.
5.
______ help an audience relate an unfamiliar idea to something they already know.
6.
Because people have different _____ _____, a speaker should plan on conveying and
reinforcing information in a variety of modes.
7.
Topical, chronological, spatial, and cause-effect are all _______ that can be used to
organize an informative speech.
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