Public Speaking Basic
Across
- 2. The written text of a play, movie, or broadcast.
- 7. The look on a person's face that conveys a particular emotion.
- 10. A tall stand with a sloping top to hold a book or notes, from which someone, can read while standing up.
- 12. Looking out at the audience and making _____ _____ helps you engage with your audience.
- 18. How an actor uses body, voice, and thoughts to develop and portray a character is called ______.
- 21. The spectators of a public event or performance.
- 22. Wild gestures, strange voices, or moving too much can be a ____ to the audience members.
- 25. Communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements.
- 26. Any arm and hand movements used during your speech.
- 27. The _____ Paradigm deals with finding the "just rights" of verbal and nonverbal communication, not doing things too much or too little.
Down
- 1. A type of speech that is focused on showing gratitude for an award or accolade.
- 3. A general description or plan giving the details.
- 4. In a script, authors will give actors ____ in parentheses () that tell actors different directions for when they are on stage.
- 5. The act of pronouncing words or parts of essential features of something but not the
- 6. ____ is the other part of presenting that includes communicating with your body language and gestures.
- 8. The relative highness or lowness of your voice.
- 9. German, Southern, Australian, and French are just some of the hundreds of _____ that people can have.
- 11. _____ gestures are a type of gesture that indicate the number of something by counting with our fingers or in the size, shape, or speed of something.
- 12. Another name for feelings or moods that actors and people feel and express.
- 13. Speaking in public becomes easier if you ____ your speech several times before you have to give it.
- 14. When a speaker is moving around too much, it can appear that they are _____ to the audience.
- 15. To perform as a character on a stage.
- 16. The speed at which you speak.
- 17. clearly.
- 19. Short for improvisation, this type of acting is done without any preparation or prior practice.
- 20. The quantity or power of sound; the degree of loudness that a speaker gives to their voice.
- 23. When a person speaks without changing pitch, tone, volume, or expression of their voice.
- 24. Umms, ahhs/uhhs, and laughing fits all interrupt a speaker's pace and cause _____ in their speech.