SPEECH 1315 BLINN FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Toulmin Model - ✔✔an approach to analyzing and constructing arguments
(Data, Claim, Warrant)
Data - ✔✔places of information/evidence that we use to support a claim (the
body of speech)
Claim - ✔✔conclusion the speaker wants the audience to accept or an
action/behavior they want them too adopt (thesis statement)
Warrant - ✔✔audience's permission/justification for a particular piece of data
to be used to support a certain claim
Authoritative Warrant - ✔✔based on assumptions of the credibility of a source
Motivational Warrant - ✔✔based on assumptions of the needs and values of
the audience
Substantive Warrant - ✔✔based on beliefs about the reliability of factual
evidence (rooted in logic)
To reinforce a belief (stimulate) - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) intensify and/or
stimulate feelings, beliefs
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, To convince - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) to change the beliefs of the audience,
revise their attitudes
To take an action (actuate) - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) make audience get
involved/take action
Issue of fact - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) concerned about whether an event
actually occurred, whether it occurred a certain way, or whether a certain entity
exists or ever existed
Issue of policy - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) concerns what policy, rule of law
should be adopted in order to solve a particular problem
Comparative Advantages Approach - ✔✔can be used when the problem is less
severe and the solution less radical
Steps of an argument - ✔✔1. Make a claim.
2. Offer evidence.
3. Show how the evidence proves the claim.
Motivated Sequence Design - ✔✔(persuasive speech design) attention grabber,
demonstrate a need/problem, find a solution, visualize the results, close with a
solution/call for action
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QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Toulmin Model - ✔✔an approach to analyzing and constructing arguments
(Data, Claim, Warrant)
Data - ✔✔places of information/evidence that we use to support a claim (the
body of speech)
Claim - ✔✔conclusion the speaker wants the audience to accept or an
action/behavior they want them too adopt (thesis statement)
Warrant - ✔✔audience's permission/justification for a particular piece of data
to be used to support a certain claim
Authoritative Warrant - ✔✔based on assumptions of the credibility of a source
Motivational Warrant - ✔✔based on assumptions of the needs and values of
the audience
Substantive Warrant - ✔✔based on beliefs about the reliability of factual
evidence (rooted in logic)
To reinforce a belief (stimulate) - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) intensify and/or
stimulate feelings, beliefs
1|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, To convince - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) to change the beliefs of the audience,
revise their attitudes
To take an action (actuate) - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) make audience get
involved/take action
Issue of fact - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) concerned about whether an event
actually occurred, whether it occurred a certain way, or whether a certain entity
exists or ever existed
Issue of policy - ✔✔(degree of persuasion) concerns what policy, rule of law
should be adopted in order to solve a particular problem
Comparative Advantages Approach - ✔✔can be used when the problem is less
severe and the solution less radical
Steps of an argument - ✔✔1. Make a claim.
2. Offer evidence.
3. Show how the evidence proves the claim.
Motivated Sequence Design - ✔✔(persuasive speech design) attention grabber,
demonstrate a need/problem, find a solution, visualize the results, close with a
solution/call for action
2|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
