Quiz 7 - Week 7

The general goal of persuasive speeches is to influence, advocate, or ask listeners to accept the speaker's point of view.

The persuasive speaker's objective is to limit the audience's alternatives to the side the speaker represents by ignoring unfavorable alternatives altogether.

The persuader who seeks only minor changes is usually more successful at achieving them than the speaker who seeks major changes.

Speaker similarity involves listeners' perceptions of how similar the speaker is to themselves, especially in terms of attitudes and moral character.

Claims of policy generally contain the word should and speak to an �ought� condition.

Claims of value address issues of judgment and attempt to show why something is right or wrong, good or bad, worthy or unworthy.

A claim declares some state of affairs and is often presented as a thesis statement.

The nature of the target audience is an important factor to consider when selecting your organizational pattern.

The organizational pattern that can soften the reservations of a hostile audience is the refutation pattern of organization.

Claims of policy fit naturally into the problem-solution pattern of arrangement.