Speech Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience (6)
  2. 5. A customary way of operation or behavior (8)
  3. 7. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter (5)
  4. 9. Outward or visible aspect of a person or thing (10)
  5. 11. Someone who ___ attentively (8)
  6. 12. An opportunity to state your case and be heard (8)
  7. 13. Formally making a person known to another or to the public (12)
  8. 15. A meeting of the ___ between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication (10)
  9. 16. Any bundle of ___ fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 2. The arrangement of the body and its limbs (7)
  2. 3. The activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose (11)
  3. 4. Someone who expresses in language (7)
  4. 6. Freedom from doubt (10)
  5. 8. A pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages (4)
  6. 10. The temporal end (10)
  7. 14. The line that appears to bound an object (7)