Across
- 4. Compares two unlike objects by using like or as.
- 6. Using appropriate language to you, audience, speech, and topic.
- 9. The technical vocabulary of a specialized field.
- 11. Enables you to direct the audience attention, thoughts, and feelings.
- 15. The presentation of contrary ideas in parallel form.
- 17. A speech that involves preparation, but no commitment to the exact wording.
- 19. Compares two unlike things by stating that one thing "is" the other.
- 20. The use of word or sentence whose literal meaning is the opposite of the given message.
Down
- 1. The repetition of the same initial sound in two or more words.
- 2. A term or phrase that combines two normally opposite qualities.
- 3. The use of extreme imagination.
- 5. The attribution if human characteristics to inanimate objects.
- 7. Use personal pronouns, asking questions, and creating immediacy to achieve this.
- 8. These are questions used to make a statement rather than be answered.
- 10. Delete these from your speech.
- 12. The use of a part of an object to stand for the whole object.
- 13. Use active verbs, strong verbs, figures of speech, and imagery.
- 14. The substitution of the name for a title with which it's closely associated.
- 16. This should be your primary goal in speaking style.
- 18. A speech you write out word for word and memorize it.