<span>How does understanding the characteristics of public speaking affect how you view a speech?
</span><span>It helps you determine how effective the speech is. The way the speaker make's and present's his speech really affect's the way you view that speaker. As you do that, this can help you to determine how effective the speech can be.
Identifying your audience will help you determine what will be the best examples for the audience to relate too. As you would not want to use sesame street as an example for a group of CEO's and you would not want to use a spreadsheet of the past 5 days in the stock market for a group of kindergartners.