C464 WGU CORE 2026 EXAM MAIN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔persuasive speech - ✔✔public speaking goal is to change someone's opinions,
attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.
✔✔A speech to entertain - ✔✔A speech to entertain sets out to amuse your listeners,
lighten their moods, distract them from a more serious issue or topic, or make them
laugh.
✔✔Topical organization - ✔✔is utilized when main points are developed separately and
connected only by the speech topic.
✔✔Chronological - ✔✔is when the body is organized by way of a timeline.
✔✔Spatial - ✔✔s a common organizational order used when illustrating space: a room,
a design, a region, etc.
✔✔Pro con - ✔✔Presentation the pros and cons of an options of a choice.
✔✔Pathos - ✔✔A speaker uses photos of wounded veterans during a presentation that
aims to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project. Which of Aristotle's rhetorical
strategies does the speaker use?
The photos arouse an emotional response that makes the audience inclined to support
this cause.
✔✔Deductive - ✔✔"Obtuse angles are greater than 90 degrees. This angle is greater
than 90 degrees, so it is an obtuse angle."
Which type of reasoning is the speaker of this quote using?
In this example, the speaker uses a general claim about obtuse triangles to make a
claim about a specific triangle.
✔✔characteristics of a good story - ✔✔They have sustainable value.
They are realistic.
They are interactive.
__________________ need to be organized, coherent, and make sense. Even though
they are told naturally, and in a conversational style, they are organized and easy for
listeners to follow.
, ✔✔Believing and reassuring yourself that you will succeed - ✔✔A successful
presentation begins, evolves, and ends with the attitude that you are a definitive expert
on the issue you are speaking about, that your audience will respond positively to you,
and that you will accomplish whatever outcome you intend
✔✔features of an entertaining speech - ✔✔Use of eye and hand gestures
Good timing
Dramatic delivery
✔✔Chema is going to begin his speech with the sound of a book closing and he will
chant "hear ye, hear ye, hear ye". What element of an introduction is Chema using? -
✔✔Capturing the audience's attention
By making a sound and using a repetitive greeting, Chema will no doubt capture the
attention of his audience.
✔✔Sullivan is going to be speaking about the different types of student loans that are
available to his college classmates. What organization should the body of the speech
follow? - ✔✔Topical. Each loan type is connected to the topic.
✔✔Instructional presentations - ✔✔Specifically designed to provide listeners with in
depth knowledge on a particular topic.
✔✔demonstration - ✔✔Gives how to advice to an audience relative to a particular topic
or activity, and it involves some physical depiction of the subject
✔✔Training - ✔✔a specialized type of education in which team member are taught
specific skills and knowledge that can enhance their performance.
✔✔Persuasion - ✔✔is an activity that "involves symbolic communication between two or
more persons with the intent to change... attitudes, beliefs, and/or behaviors of the
receiver[s]"
✔✔Three Goals of Persuasion - ✔✔to change how listeners feel, think, or act.
✔✔Attitude - ✔✔refers to an individual's consistent feelings of like or dislike toward a
particular object, person, concept, or idea
thoughts, feeling perceptions assumptions and expectations
✔✔Belief - ✔✔pertains to an individual's perception of the truth, or the existence or
falsity of something
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔persuasive speech - ✔✔public speaking goal is to change someone's opinions,
attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.
✔✔A speech to entertain - ✔✔A speech to entertain sets out to amuse your listeners,
lighten their moods, distract them from a more serious issue or topic, or make them
laugh.
✔✔Topical organization - ✔✔is utilized when main points are developed separately and
connected only by the speech topic.
✔✔Chronological - ✔✔is when the body is organized by way of a timeline.
✔✔Spatial - ✔✔s a common organizational order used when illustrating space: a room,
a design, a region, etc.
✔✔Pro con - ✔✔Presentation the pros and cons of an options of a choice.
✔✔Pathos - ✔✔A speaker uses photos of wounded veterans during a presentation that
aims to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project. Which of Aristotle's rhetorical
strategies does the speaker use?
The photos arouse an emotional response that makes the audience inclined to support
this cause.
✔✔Deductive - ✔✔"Obtuse angles are greater than 90 degrees. This angle is greater
than 90 degrees, so it is an obtuse angle."
Which type of reasoning is the speaker of this quote using?
In this example, the speaker uses a general claim about obtuse triangles to make a
claim about a specific triangle.
✔✔characteristics of a good story - ✔✔They have sustainable value.
They are realistic.
They are interactive.
__________________ need to be organized, coherent, and make sense. Even though
they are told naturally, and in a conversational style, they are organized and easy for
listeners to follow.
, ✔✔Believing and reassuring yourself that you will succeed - ✔✔A successful
presentation begins, evolves, and ends with the attitude that you are a definitive expert
on the issue you are speaking about, that your audience will respond positively to you,
and that you will accomplish whatever outcome you intend
✔✔features of an entertaining speech - ✔✔Use of eye and hand gestures
Good timing
Dramatic delivery
✔✔Chema is going to begin his speech with the sound of a book closing and he will
chant "hear ye, hear ye, hear ye". What element of an introduction is Chema using? -
✔✔Capturing the audience's attention
By making a sound and using a repetitive greeting, Chema will no doubt capture the
attention of his audience.
✔✔Sullivan is going to be speaking about the different types of student loans that are
available to his college classmates. What organization should the body of the speech
follow? - ✔✔Topical. Each loan type is connected to the topic.
✔✔Instructional presentations - ✔✔Specifically designed to provide listeners with in
depth knowledge on a particular topic.
✔✔demonstration - ✔✔Gives how to advice to an audience relative to a particular topic
or activity, and it involves some physical depiction of the subject
✔✔Training - ✔✔a specialized type of education in which team member are taught
specific skills and knowledge that can enhance their performance.
✔✔Persuasion - ✔✔is an activity that "involves symbolic communication between two or
more persons with the intent to change... attitudes, beliefs, and/or behaviors of the
receiver[s]"
✔✔Three Goals of Persuasion - ✔✔to change how listeners feel, think, or act.
✔✔Attitude - ✔✔refers to an individual's consistent feelings of like or dislike toward a
particular object, person, concept, or idea
thoughts, feeling perceptions assumptions and expectations
✔✔Belief - ✔✔pertains to an individual's perception of the truth, or the existence or
falsity of something
