When Preparing a Speech Introduction, You Should Usually

question 69

Multiple Choice

When preparing a speech introduction, you should usually

• A) practice the introduction no more than two or three times.
• B) make sure the introduction takes up 25 percent of the speech.
• C) complete the introduction after the body of the speech.
• D) stick with the first introduction that comes to mind.
• E) use humor to gain the audience's attention and interest.

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Definitions:

Syntactic Stage

The phase in language development in which children begin to understand and use the rules of sentence structure and grammar.

Speech Sounds

The basic units of sound (phonemes) used in languages to encode and communicate meanings.

Syntactic Stage

A phase in language development in which a child begins to grasp grammatical structures and rules.

Babbling Stage

A stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant begins to produce sounds of speech, often in repetitive phonetic patterns.