For each of the characters described below, what types of informative speeches (

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For each of the characters described below, what types of informative speeches (Definitional Speeches, Descriptive Speeches, Explanatory Speeches and Demonstration Speeches) might each person be called upon to give in her or his personal and professional life? List 4 examples for each.

A. Stacy is an emergency room physician and medical school professor. She also serves on the board of directors for a local college. For recreation she enjoys rock climbing.

B. Rick is an animal control officer who volunteers his time at both the animal shelter and the local Habitat for Humanity group. He is in a bowling league with other city employees.

C. Akiko is in insurance sales and volunteers in the math classroom at her children’s middle school. As a hobby, she collects and sells antiques

Explanation / Answer

Answer: (A) She may have to give descriptive speech for example describing a medical emergency situation to the students, describing the medical emergency procedures, describing the diseased conditions to the students and describing how to handle emergency patients.

(B) He may have to give demonstrative speech which describes how to perform an action. The examples are demonstrative speech for how to handle animals, speech for how to provide help to the animals at the shelter if they are injured, speech for demonstrating that how to feed the animals at the shelter and speech for demonstrating that how to play bowling game.

(c) She may have to give definition speech which explains a theory related to a concept for example speech to clients explaining the concept of insurance, speech to students at class room about the mathematic topics, in an auction explaining the history of an antique and to the insurance clients explaining the role of insurance in financial planning

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