Question

multiple choice question
in concluding her speech on supervolcanoes, hattie says, \in this speech, i have tried to inform you about the sleeping giants beneath our feet. right now, magma is dripping ever so slowly into giant chambers in the earth. one day, perhaps thousands of years from now, another supervolcano will explode again, changing our world forever.\ what guideline for informative speeches does this segment best illustrate?
○ dont overestimate what the audience knows.
○ dont be too technical.
○ avoid abstractions.
○ relate the subject directly to the audience.

Explanation:

Hattie uses the metaphor of "sleeping giants" for supervolcanoes and frames the topic around a future event that affects "our world," making the distant, technical topic relatable to the audience's understanding of the world they live in. This matches the guideline of connecting the subject directly to the audience. The other options do not fit: she does not overestimate audience knowledge, uses accessible language (not overly technical), and uses a concrete metaphor rather than abstractions.

Answer:

Relate the subject directly to the audience.