Verbal Delivery

Book Assignment

Bender

 

Chapter 2    pgs 27 – 51

Chapter 7    pgs 172 – 201

Chapter 13  pgs 339 – 369

Chapter 14  pgs 371 – 405

 

I.  Define the New Speech Terms located on page 27, 173, 339, and

     371.  When defining the term make sure you completely understand

     the whole meaning.  Use the glossary in the back of the book, the

     chapter reading and when applicable the speech vocabulary in the

     back of each chapter.

 

II.  In the blank write the name of the person who fits each quote or

      description.  The index in the back of the book may help find the

      information.

 

_______________  1.  He said that before we can move the world, we first have

                                 to move ourselves.

 

________________2.  He believed that nothing great was ever achieved without

                                 enthusiasm.

 

_______________  3.  Given eitht hours to cut down a tree, he would spend

                                 seven sharpening the blade and one cutting down the

                                 tree.

 

_______________  4.  He wrote an allegory

 

Choices for questions 1 – 4 – Socrates, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato, Abraham Lincoln

 

_______________   5.  “I know that you believe that you understand what you

                                   think I said, but I’m not sure that you realize that what

                                   you heard is not what I meant.’

 

_______________  6.  “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language

                                  of the people.”

                                                                             OVER

 

 

 

 

 

_______________  7.  She said that she would choose to hear if she had to

                                 choose between hearing and seeing.

 

                                                                         

 

_______________  8.  “The pleasure and excitement of words is that they are

                                   living and generating things.”

 

 

_______________  9.  He said that the difference between the right word and

                                 the almost-right word is the difference between lightning

                                 and the lightning bug.

 

_______________ 10.  “Simplify, simplify,”

 

Choices for questions 5 – 10 - Mark Twain, Christopher Fry, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Nixon, William Butler Yeats, John F. Kennedy, Helen Keller

 

_______________  11.  He stammered badly as a child and overcame his

                                   problem through speech therapy and the high school

                                   speech and debate team.

 

_______________  12.  “Never rise to speak till you have something to say and

                                   when you have said it, cease.”

 

_______________  13.  “The only way that I ever started to get any type of

                                    style was when I picked up my trumpet and blew.”

 

Choices for questions 11 – 13   – Miles Davis, James Earl Jones, John Witherspoon

 

III.  Short Answer

 

1.  List and explain the 10 planks of confidence

2.  List two ways to convey a good first impression.

3.  Discuss the importance of concrete language in speeches.

4.  List advantages and disadvantages of abstract words.