chapter 14 speech

Visual aids are often helpful to a speaker because they can

help listeners retain a speaker’s ideas. make information more interesting to listeners. enhance the clarity of a speaker’s ideas.

According to your textbook, when using color in Keynote or PowerPoint slides, you should

use colors that can easily be differentiated from each other and use the same colors consistently throughout your slides.

As your textbook explains, if you are going to use PowerPoint or another presentation program in a speech, you should

allow extra time to prepare your slides and plan where you can employ slides to greatest advantage.

Gillian prepared beautiful photographs in Keynote to illustrate various parts of her speech about the Grand Canyon. When Gillian finished explaining each photograph, she left it on the screen for her audience to study until it was time for the next slide. Did Gillian make any mistakes in her use of visual aids?

Yes. She should have displayed blank slides between the photographs.

If you wanted to show the increase in the cost of commercials during the Super Bowl over the past 40 years, the best kind of visual aid would probably be a

line graph.

During her speech about improving student services on campus, Louise gave each member of her audience a handout listing all the current services. Did Louise follow the guidelines for visual aids presented in your textbook?

No. Louise risked losing attention by distributing the handout during her speech.

As your textbook explains, visual aids are most effective when they are displayed

only while the speaker is discussing them.

________ are especially valuable for showing an audience statistical trends and patterns.

Graphs

A(n) ________ is a visual aid that summarizes a large block of information, usually in list form.

chart

If you wanted to compare the changes over the last 10 years in the number of people who get their news from newspapers and the number of people who get their news from the Internet, the best kind of visual aid would probably be a

line graph.

When you use slides created with PowerPoint or another presentation program in a speech, you should

allow extra time to prepare the slides and bring a backup of your slides to the speech.

Which of the following does your textbook recommend for using visual aids?

prepare visual aids well in advance of your speaking date and display visual aids only while discussing them.

According to your textbook, when selecting fonts for a visual aid, you should usually use

no more than two fonts.

As your textbook explains, if you plan to use a photograph as a visual aid in a speech, you should usually

display the photograph using presentation technology such as PowerPoint.

Which of the following would probably be the best kind of visual aid to illustrate the rising cost of a college degree?

a line graph

Which of the following is presented in your textbook as a guideline for presenting visual aids?

display visual aids where listeners can see them and display visual aids only while discussing them.

According to your textbook, visual aids are most effective when they are

explained clearly and concisely.

Which of the following does your textbook say you should do when preparing PowerPoint slides?

Use a limited amount of text. Use colors consistently. Use images strategically.

Rosalie will be giving a persuasive speech on organ donation and wants to distribute organ-donor cards to her listeners. When should she distribute the cards?

after she has finished speaking

If you wanted to summarize the eight steps in a criminal trial, the best type of visual aid to use would probably be a

chart

Which of the following would probably be the best visual aid to demonstrate the distribution of grades for a class?

a pie graph

According to your textbook, when you are going to give an audience material to take home from a speech, you should usually distribute the material

after the speech.

If you wanted to compare the current infant mortality rate, average life span, and cost of living in the United States and Denmark, which type of visual aid should you probably use?

a bar graph

Visual aids can be very useful to a speaker because they

enhance the clarity of a speaker’s ideas.

Kumar gave his informative speech on meteorology. As part of the speech, he displayed an excellent drawing to indicate the temperatures in different layers of the atmosphere. When he got to the drawing, he said, "As you can see, each layer has a different temperature." He then covered up the drawing and quickly moved on. What should Kumar have done to present his visual aid more effectively?

He should have explained the visual aid more fully.

Bryn is planning to use visual aids for her informative speech. Which of the following recommendations will she find in your textbook?

keep visual aids simple and use visual aids strategically.

If you wanted to compare the amount of fossil fuels, solar power, and wind energy used in the United States and Germany, which type of visual aid would be most effective?

a bar graph

If you were discussing statistical trends in a speech, what kind of visual aid would probably work best to clarify the trends for listeners?

a graph

If you wanted to demonstrate the comparative spending of the United States and Canada on four different kinds of social services, which type of visual aid would be most effective?

a bar graph