PERSUASIVE SPEAKING

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Across
  1. 3. Theory that proposes listeners who are intensely interested in your topic and can easily understand your presentation will put more effort into thinking about your persuasive message than will listeners who don’t care about or don’t understand your speech topic. (Three words)
  2. 4. Explicit statements that speak to needs and feelings. (Two words)
  3. 5. The process of identifying important characteristics about your listeners, and using this information to prepare your speech.
  4. 7. Ethos, logos, and pathos (Two words)
  5. 9. Showing your audience that you understand their needs, have their best interests in mind, and genuinely believe in your topic.
  6. 12. When you start with a generally held principle and then show how a specific instance relates to that principle. (Two words)
  7. 13. Argues about whether an action should or should not be taken. (Three words)
  8. 16. The degree of expertise your audience thinks you have regarding your speech topic.
  9. 18. The audience who are less motivated about the topic or who don’t have the time or knowledge needed to understand the information will not be fully engaged with the speech. They may selectively listen for items of personal interest but miss your larger meaning and not fully understand your thesis. (Two words)
  10. 19. Warmth, personality, and dynamism your audience sees in you.
  11. 21. The audience members who are highly motivated to listen and who have the knowledge needed to understand your message will pay more attention and carefully evaluate your points. (Two words)
  12. 22. Logical reasons.
  13. 24. When you connect a set a specific, related facts to arrive at a more general conclusion. (Two words)
  14. 25. The speaker’s credibility.
  15. 26. Emotions.
Down
  1. 1. A five-step method for organizing a persuasive speech about a problem. (Two words)
  2. 2. Human behavior is motivated by the desire to meet basic life needs. (Three words)
  3. 6. Language that indicates how certain you are about your major premise.
  4. 8. You draw a connection between two events or things and claim that one produced the other. (Three words)
  5. 10. Supports a claim by drawing a comparison between two ideas or situations to show that what’s true for one could be true for the other. (Two words)
  6. 11. The use of threats, manipulation, and violence to force others to do something against their will.
  7. 14. Speeches that reinforce or change listeners’ attitudes and beliefs and possibly even motivate them to take action. (Two words)
  8. 15. Urges a judgment on a topic or explains why something is good or bad. (Three words)
  9. 17. An audience’s perception of a speaker’s trustworthiness and the validity of the information provided in the speech.
  10. 20. Establishes whether something is true or not. (Three words)
  11. 23. Claims that are not true or are based on inadequate or inaccurate evidence.