One strategy for making an informative speech clear is to relate new information to what the audience already knows.

When making choices about the appropriate style for your speech, your textbook suggests you should ask yourself which of the following questions?

A. If an audience remembers only two things, what would I want those two things to be? B. How can I make every sentence overwhelmingly interesting? C. Have I included too many figures and tropes? D. Have I included off-colored language? E. none of these choices

The study of meaning or how individual words communicate the meaning we intend to get across in our communication is known as ________.

A. phonetics B. syntactics C. semantics D. pragmatics