Public Speaking Basic

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