You need to concentrate and want to understand. Critical Listening You need to be suspicious of the message, challenging and evaluating its accuracy. You need to ask what the speaker's point is. You need to ask where the information came from and what it is being used for. You need to assess the speaker's methods of support , how the speaker makes and backs up a point.
Analogy is a comparison between two things.
Example is a specific item or story to illustrate a general idea. Statistics are numbers to describe ideas. Testimony is the word of a well-known person to endorse an idea. These methods can be used to support any of three basic appeals in public speaking. Personal or ethical appeal.