10.2 Assessing Your Audience-Centered Speaking Skills

10.2 Assessing Your Audience-Centered Speaking skills I would tell her to use specific, concrete, and simple words in order to make her speech effective. The example in the text book says instead of using the general word of snake, use another word that tells what the snake is like the ball python. These three things will help the audience understand her topic better if they can place the objects as pictures.

10.4 Thinking Critically “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience”. I think this metaphors says that his experience is guided his feet. Ordinary language, I would say this is saying that from the speakers experience is guiding him through his journey. I think this loses the listeners, in order to fully understand that statement I had to read it a few times. Now, if this was presented in a speech, people would be focusing on what the speaker meant in this statement while not paying attention to the counting information the speaker is presenting.

In ordinary language, it could mean a barrier or a wall. I think the speaker gained the audience interest with this statement. “snake pit of racial hatred”, I think this is explaining a group of individuals that keep falling in a pit of racial hate and the snake pit is referred to be difficult to get out of, going back to the old ways. Like the statement I used above, I believe it was a very interesting way to keep the audience attention. I think it projected what the speaker was trying to come a crossed. “Speak softly and carry a big stick”, I think statement says that when you speak, use powerful meanings instead of speaking loud with less powerful meaning. Ordinary language, I think this mean speak with meaning. The speaker gained the audience attention and that it was a memorable and powerful statement that hit close to home with people that want to make a