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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. The speed at which a person speaks.
Rate
Antithesis
Volume
Appreciative Listening
2. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Pause
Antithesis
Consensus
Clutter
3. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Listener
Rate
Median
Leadership
4. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Nonverbal Communication
Ethics
Comprehensive Listening
5. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Open-Ended Questions
Active Listening
Patchwork Plagiarism
Demographic Audience Analysis
6. 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.
Maintenance Needs
Chronological Order
Repetition
Situational Audience Analysis
7. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Feedback
Spare Brain Time
Preview Statement
Dyad
8. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Reasoning from Principle
Task Needs
Patchwork Plagiarism
Commemorative Speech
9. A group of two people.
Listening
Incremental Plagiarism
Causal Order
Dyad
10. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Reasoning from Principle
Procedural Needs
Evidence
Interference
11. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Goodwill
Vocalized Pause
Dissolve Ending
Designated Leader
12. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Central Idea
Audience-Centeredness
Critical Listening
Specific Purpose
13. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Internal Preview
Causal Order
Ethnocentrism
Attitude
14. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Attitude
Either-Or
Supporting Materials
Dialect
15. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Attitude
Extemporaneous Speech
Derived Credibility
Conversational Quality
16. The average value of a group of numbers.
Mean
Topical Order
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Internal Summary
17. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Volume
Generic 'he'
Situation
Conversational Quality
18. A trite or over uesd expression.
Question of Policy
Attitude
Appreciative Listening
Cliche
19. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Main Points
Speaking Outline
Bill of Rights
Demographic Audience Analysis
20. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Stage Fright
Transition
Speech of Presentation
Leadership
21. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Situational Audience Analysis
Ad Hominem
Message
Appreciative Listening
22. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Cliche
Credibility
Reasoning
Dialect
23. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Attitude
Scale Questions
Pathos
Volume
24. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Pitch
Crescendo Ending
Speaker
25. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Criteria
Procedural Needs
Panel Discussion
Critical Listening
26. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Question of Policy
Alliteration
Metaphor
Topical Order
27. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Denotative Meaning
Listener
Speaking Outline
Open-Ended Questions
28. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Name-calling
Central Idea
Delivery Cues
Parallelism
29. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Positive nervousness
Pause
Task Needs
Expert Testimony
30. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Identification
Red Herring
Frame of Reference
Hearing
31. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Statistics
Eye Contact
Listener
Speech of Introduction
32. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Open-Ended Questions
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Rhythm
Speech of Introduction
33. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Example
Connotative Meaning
Slippery Slope
Fallacy
34. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Topical Order
Chronological Order
Expert Testimony
Bill of Rights
35. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Strategic Organization
Brief Example
Hidden Agenda
Reflective-Thinking Method
36. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Rhythm
Identification
Emphatic Listening
Goodwill
37. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Acceptance Speech
Emergent Leader
Paraphrase
Positive nervousness
38. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Symposium
Antithesis
After-Dinner Speech
Logos
39. A method of speech organization in which the first main point deals with the existence of a problem and the second main point presents the solution to the problem.
Parallelism
Listener
Problem-Solution Order
Concrete Words
40. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Ethos
Open-Ended Questions
Rhythm
Preview Statement
41. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Terminal Credibility
Active Listening
Emphatic Listening
Demographic Audience Analysis
42. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Bandwagon
Reasoning
Problem Solving (small)
Analogical Reasoning
43. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Implied Leader
Stereo-typing
Reasoning from Principle
Invalid Analogy
44. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Credibility
Internal Preview
Invalid Analogy
Maintenance Needs
45. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Red Herring
Key-word Outline
Rhetorical Question
Direct Quotation
46. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Delivery Cues
Bill of Rights
Reflective-Thinking Method
Transition
47. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Vocalized Pause
Frame of Reference
Hearing
Dialect
48. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Nonverbal Communication
Goodwill
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Task Needs
49. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Rhetorical Question
Signpost
Bill of Rights
50. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Spare Brain Time
Terminal Credibility
Gestures
Procedural Needs