Speech and Debate Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Seven minute limited prep speech on current political affairs
  2. 10. Interp A interp between two people that can be funny or serious
  3. 11. A self written 10 minute piece with visual aids(VAs)
  4. 12. different groups of events.
  5. 13. form where judges write specific, constructive comments.
  6. 14. Order the order contestants are listed on the schematic
  7. 18. Seven minute limited prep speech
  8. 19. movements made during a performance
Down
  1. 1. opening of a piece; often referred to as an “intro”
  2. 3. to take only selected sections from literature
  3. 4. Signals: hand signals showing how much time a competitor has left to speak.
  4. 5. Interp A serios Interp
  5. 6. Entered entered in more than one event
  6. 7. when an individual performer suddenly changes characters.
  7. 8. just prior to the introduction, a brief selection of the piece
  8. 9. Oratory A self written 10 minute piece that presents solutions
  9. 11. short for Interpretation; refers to a performance
  10. 15. Interp A funny interp
  11. 16. literary selection (title and author
  12. 17. another word for “event"