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| Subordination | Indenting and ranking items on an outline to show their order and importance. |
| Outline | The Speaker’s Map. |
| Problem-Solution Pattern | An organizational pattern that presents a problem and ideas to fix it. |
| Cause-Effect Pattern | An organizational pattern that shows how one area leads to another. |
| Main Heading | The major division in your speech, or the major points in the preview statement. |
| Body | The heart of the speech; the most important part of the speech. |
| Quotation | This uses another person’s exact words; often used as an attention getter. |
| Supporting Materials | This reenforces and intensify the main headings. |
| Preview Statement | The sentence at the end of the introduction, which tells the three main headings. |
| Introduction | The first part of a speech, it establishes the central idea and gets the audience interested. |
| Spatial Pattern | An organizational pattern based on space. |
| Chronological Pattern | An organizational pattern based on time. |
| Climactic Pattern | Organization in order of importance; the most important idea is last. |
| Transition | Words that signal where the discussion is going; they move from one point to another. |
| Thesis Statement | A sentence telling what you’ll speak about; the main idea. |
| Link | A statement that logically connects the attention-getter to the thesis. |
| Organization | The logical grouping and ordering of “like” parts |
| Rhetorical Question | A question that people answer silently in their heads. |
