Public Speaking Word Search
This public speaking word search covers standing up in front of a room: the speech and the speaker, the podium and the lectern, the microphone, the cue cards you rehearse with, stage fright, and the ovation at the end.
Aristotle wrote a full handbook on the subject, the Rhetoric, in the fourth century BC. He said a speaker persuades in three ways: ethos, the speaker's character, pathos, the feelings of the audience, and logos, the argument itself. The Athenian orator Demosthenes is said to have trained by talking with pebbles in his mouth and shouting over the waves until his weak voice carried. A podium and a lectern are two different things. The podium is the raised platform a speaker stands on, from the Greek for foot, and the lectern is the slanted stand that holds the notes, from the Latin for read.
Short speeches are often the ones remembered. At Gettysburg in 1863 the main speaker, Edward Everett, talked for about two hours; Abraham Lincoln followed with about 270 words that took around two minutes. The fear of speaking in public has its own name, glossophobia, from the Greek words for tongue and fear. A eulogy is a speech in praise of someone who has died, and the word comes from the Greek for speaking well.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Anecdote
- Aristotle
- Cadence
- Cicero
- Commencement
- Cue Cards
- Demosthenes
- Diction
- Enunciate
- Ethos
- Eulogy
- Filler
- Gettysburg
- Glossophobia
- Handout
- Heckler
- Impromptu
- Inflection
- Informative
- Keynote
- Lectern
- Logos
- Manuscript
- Memorized
- Microphone
- Orator
- Ovation
- Pace
- Pathos
- Podium
- Projection
- Rapport
- Rehearse
- Rhetoric
- Speaker
- Speech
- Stage Fright
- Toast
- Valedictorian
- Visual Aid