Chapter 17 Terms

4. a brief speech designed to celebrate a person or an occasion
8. what you find is useful
10. a speech of tribute to praise someone who has died, puts a person's life and contributions in a postive light
12. speeches in which you show how to do something or how something works
13. memorable points
14. statement of explanation, formulation of relationships, reasoned generalization
15. the other side of this honoring ceremony
16. what you find is useless
17. morality, standards of conduct, moral judgement
18. in verbal interaction, the relative amounts of signal and noise

1. place an award or honor in some kind of context
2. ability to understand, interact with and create media messages
3. speeches in which you describe an object, a person, event or process
5. speeches in which you define a term, a system or theory, or similar and dissimilar terms
6. helpful in speeches of demonstration
7. usually designed to introduce a speaker or a topic area that a series of speakers will address
9. combining high abstraction and low abstraction
11. you tell your listeners something new - something they dont know