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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Red Herring
Monotone
Generic 'he'
2. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Rhetorical Question
Pitch
Metaphor
Imagery
3. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Reasoning
False Cause
Spare Brain Time
Metaphor
4. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Impromptu Speech
Critical Listening
Pitch
Pathos
5. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Fallacy
Logos
Listening
Either-Or
6. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Clutter
Delivery Cues
Metaphor
Crescendo Ending
7. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Speaker
Repetition
Name-calling
Vocal Variety
8. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Hasty Generalization
Patchwork Plagiarism
Analogical Reasoning
Emergent Leader
9. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Delivery Cues
Goodwill
Fallacy
Nonverbal Communication
10. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Active Listening
Central Idea
Bandwagon
11. 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.
Problem Solving (small)
Invalid Analogy
Situational Audience Analysis
Derived Credibility
12. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Plagiarism
Situational Audience Analysis
Nonverbal Communication
Simile
13. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Extemporaneous Speech
Implied Leader
Vocal Variety
Consensus
14. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Pathos
Stereo-typing
Emphatic Listening
Ethos
15. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Emergent Leader
Reasoning
Connotative Meaning
Dissolve Ending
16. A group of two people.
Extemporaneous Speech
Dyad
Small Group
Pause
17. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Main Points
Eye Contact
Rhythm
Listener
18. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Hearing
Plagiarism
Preparation Outline
Commemorative Speech
19. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Critical Thinking
Egocentrism
Manuscript Speech
Listener
20. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Hearing
Acceptance Speech
Listening
Extemporaneous Speech
21. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Question of Policy
Antithesis
Residual Message
Plagiarism
22. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Paraphrase
Incremental Plagiarism
Open-Ended Questions
Inflections
23. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Global Plagiarism
Critical Listening
Expert Testimony
Audience-Centeredness
24. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Key-word Outline
Terminal Credibility
Residual Message
Creating Common Grounds
25. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Emphatic Listening
False Cause
Causal Order
Crescendo Ending
26. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Median
Nonverbal Communication
Egocentrism
Adrenaline
27. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Median
Hasty Generalization
Strategic Organization
Bill of Rights
28. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Ethnocentrism
Connective
Preparation Outline
Reflective-Thinking Method
29. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Conversational Quality
Supporting Materials
Speaker
Creating Common Grounds
30. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Egocentrism
Acceptance Speech
Emergent Leader
Stage Fright
31. Numerical data.
Logos
Key-word Outline
Statistics
Emphatic Listening
32. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Connective
Supporting Materials
Residual Message
Main Points
33. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Channel
Connotative Meaning
Name-calling
Repetition
34. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Consensus
Parallelism
Invalid Analogy
Topic
35. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Oral Report
Preparation Outline
Speaker
36. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Symposium
Message
Procedural Needs
Criteria
37. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Goodwill
Dissolve Ending
Direct Quotation
Bill of Rights
38. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Peer Testimony
Central Idea
Rhetorical Question
Reasoning from Specific Instances
39. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Visualization
Rhythm
Name-calling
Pathos
40. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Emphatic Listening
Positive nervousness
Credibility
Specific Purpose
41. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Signpost
Hearing
Central Idea
Expert Testimony
42. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Speech of Introduction
Nonverbal Communication
Parallelism
Gestures
43. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Acceptance Speech
Problem Solving (small)
Direct Quotation
False Cause
44. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Attitude
Nonverbal Communication
Main Points
Stage Fright
45. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Pathos
Metaphor
Interference
Articulation
46. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Pathos
Spare Brain Time
Preview Statement
Monotone
47. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Visualization
Vocalized Pause
Parallelism
Stereo-typing
48. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Vocalized Pause
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Example
Pronunciation
49. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Bill of Rights
Either-Or
Fallacy
Pronunciation
50. The means by which a message is communicated.
Message
Rate
Mean
Channel
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