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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Positive nervousness
Invalid Analogy
Crescendo Ending
Quoting out of Context
2. Audience Analysis that focuses on situational factors such as the size of the audience - the physical setting of the speech - and the disposition of the audience toward the topic - the speaker - and the occasion.
Concrete Words
Testimony
Analogical Reasoning
Situational Audience Analysis
3. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Message
Pathos
Demographic Audience Analysis
Pause
4. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
After-Dinner Speech
Alliteration
Statistics
Feedback
5. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Reasoning
Repetition
Median
Paraphrase
6. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Expert Testimony
Active Listening
Clutter
Goodwill
7. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Causal Order
Kinesics
Vocalized Pause
Ethical Decisions
8. The subject of a speech.
Stereo-typing
Message
Topic
Median
9. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Stereo-typing
Pause
Peer Testimony
Specific Purpose
10. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Credibility
Maintenance Needs
Critical Listening
Gestures
11. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Dissolve Ending
Inflections
Clutter
Goodwill
12. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Plagiarism
Question of Policy
Preview Statement
Reasoning
13. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Articulation
Volume
Incremental Plagiarism
Scale Questions
14. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Pause
Ethics
Channel
15. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Metaphor
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Derived Credibility
Internal Preview
16. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Inflections
Metaphor
Scale Questions
Situation
17. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Articulation
Topical Order
Global Plagiarism
Acceptance Speech
18. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Name-calling
Key-word Outline
Procedural Needs
Global Plagiarism
19. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Invalid Analogy
Repetition
Simile
Panel Discussion
20. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Speaking Outline
Strategic Organization
Nonverbal Communication
After-Dinner Speech
21. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Kinesics
Oral Report
Topical Order
Problem Solving (small)
22. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Egocentrism
Hearing
Rhetorical Question
Bandwagon
23. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Dissolve Ending
Consensus
Repetition
Paraphrase
24. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Gestures
Imagery
Positive nervousness
Ethical Decisions
25. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Speaker
Slippery Slope
Quoting out of Context
26. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Manuscript Speech
Task Needs
Slippery Slope
Paraphrase
27. A trite or over uesd expression.
Cliche
Pause
Transition
Consensus
28. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Pitch
Open-Ended Questions
Denotative Meaning
Leadership
29. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Speech of Introduction
Credibility
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Speech of Presentation
30. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Plagiarism
Conversational Quality
Active Listening
Ethos
31. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Name-calling
Active Listening
Preview Statement
Creating Common Grounds
32. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
After-Dinner Speech
Listener
Key-word Outline
Reflective-Thinking Method
33. Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that which is true for the first case is also true for the second.
Analogical Reasoning
Alliteration
Open-Ended Questions
Maintenance Needs
34. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Slippery Slope
Testimony
Dissolve Ending
Dialect
35. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Bill of Rights
Residual Message
Scale Questions
Speech of Presentation
36. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Internal Preview
Dialect
Adrenaline
Slippery Slope
37. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Ethical Decisions
38. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Preparation Outline
Positive nervousness
Ethnocentrism
Kinesics
39. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Stereo-typing
Global Plagiarism
Topic
Designated Leader
40. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Credibility
Demographic Audience Analysis
Slippery Slope
Channel
41. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethos
Scale Questions
Situational Audience Analysis
Brief Example
42. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Extemporaneous Speech
Feedback
Speech of Introduction
Supporting Materials
43. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Example
Patchwork Plagiarism
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Identification
44. The means by which a message is communicated.
Ethnocentrism
Median
Channel
Quoting out of Context
45. A group of two people.
Dyad
Credibility
Speech of Presentation
Speaker
46. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Paraphrase
Stage Fright
Reasoning from Principle
Emergent Leader
47. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Clutter
Emphatic Listening
Central Idea
Internal Preview
48. Numerical data.
Generic 'he'
Nonverbal Communication
Scale Questions
Statistics
49. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Statistics
Chronological Order
Fallacy
Comprehensive Listening
50. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Scale Questions
Hearing
Criteria
Hasty Generalization