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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Derived Credibility
Paraphrase
Concrete Words
Extemporaneous Speech
2. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Causal Reasoning
Symposium
Speech of Presentation
Visualization
3. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Channel
Alliteration
Situation
Credibility
4. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Oral Report
Maintenance Needs
Commemorative Speech
Hearing
5. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Credibility
Listener
Visual Framework
Fallacy
6. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Strategic Organization
Hearing
Initial Credibility
Open-Ended Questions
7. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Parallelism
Global Plagiarism
Conversational Quality
Chronological Order
8. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Logos
Pathos
Small Group
Kinesics
9. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Speech of Presentation
Ethical Decisions
Connotative Meaning
Internal Preview
10. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Fallacy
Pronunciation
Specific Purpose
Expert Testimony
11. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Metaphor
Concrete Words
12. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Situational Audience Analysis
Commemorative Speech
Reasoning from Principle
Direct Quotation
13. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Identification
Patchwork Plagiarism
Critical Thinking
Stage Fright
14. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Antithesis
Commemorative Speech
Causal Reasoning
Question of Policy
15. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Red Herring
Incremental Plagiarism
Connective
Interference
16. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Clutter
Crescendo Ending
Red Herring
Repetition
17. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Impromptu Speech
Question of Policy
Ethical Decisions
Mean
18. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
After-Dinner Speech
Designated Leader
Pitch
Cliche
19. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Creating Common Grounds
Designated Leader
Vocal Variety
Leadership
20. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Appreciative Listening
Goodwill
Paraphrase
Dissolve Ending
21. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Main Points
Extemporaneous Speech
Derived Credibility
Interference
22. The average value of a group of numbers.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Statistics
Mean
Pronunciation
23. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Adrenaline
Bill of Rights
Articulation
Positive nervousness
24. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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25. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Strategic Organization
Audience-Centeredness
Denotative Meaning
Reasoning from Principle
26. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Testimony
Key-word Outline
Ethics
Consensus
27. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Causal Order
Extemporaneous Speech
Emergent Leader
Message
28. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Specific Purpose
Rhetorical Question
Reflective-Thinking Method
Analogical Reasoning
29. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Attitude
Visualization
Residual Message
Invalid Analogy
30. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Audience-Centeredness
Name-calling
Key-word Outline
Internal Summary
31. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Stage Fright
Conversational Quality
Metaphor
Procedural Needs
32. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Example
Speech of Presentation
Slippery Slope
Creating Common Grounds
33. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Concrete Words
Symposium
Small Group
Feedback
34. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Procedural Needs
Bill of Rights
Problem Solving (small)
Denotative Meaning
35. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Listener
Initial Credibility
Quoting out of Context
Alliteration
36. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Bibliography
Mean
Plagiarism
Commemorative Speech
37. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Connotative Meaning
Slippery Slope
Signpost
Credibility
38. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Pronunciation
Critical Listening
Credibility
Extemporaneous Speech
39. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Antithesis
Direct Quotation
Cliche
Channel
40. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Expert Testimony
Pause
Incremental Plagiarism
41. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Chronological Order
Bibliography
Feedback
Question of Policy
42. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Speech of Presentation
Message
Alliteration
Speaker
43. 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.
Ethical Decisions
Plagiarism
Invalid Analogy
Situational Audience Analysis
44. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Chronological Order
Dialect
Rate
Interference
45. The subject of a speech.
Topic
Critical Thinking
Dissolve Ending
Nonverbal Communication
46. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Volume
Metaphor
Critical Listening
Rhetorical Question
47. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Active Listening
Denotative Meaning
Brief Example
Frame of Reference
48. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Creating Common Grounds
Ethos
Stage Fright
49. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Message
Hasty Generalization
Interference
Rhetorical Question
50. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Pitch
Nonverbal Communication
Pathos
False Cause