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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. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Small Group
Articulation
Manuscript Speech
Maintenance Needs
2. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Invalid Analogy
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Conversational Quality
Causal Reasoning
3. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Designated Leader
Hypothetical Example
Fallacy
Plagiarism
4. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Strategic Organization
Stage Fright
Vocal Variety
Reasoning from Specific Instances
5. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Generic 'he'
Active Listening
Pitch
Direct Quotation
6. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
After-Dinner Speech
Adrenaline
Kinesics
Residual Message
7. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Small Group
Transition
Name-calling
Ethical Decisions
8. 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.
Credibility
Situational Audience Analysis
Vocalized Pause
Pathos
9. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Delivery Cues
Evidence
Pause
Preview Statement
10. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Ethics
Statistics
Pause
Preview Statement
11. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Bandwagon
Designated Leader
Topic
Vocal Variety
12. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Pitch
Egocentrism
Leadership
Message
13. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Mean
Consensus
Bill of Rights
Pitch
14. The means by which a message is communicated.
Ethnocentrism
Inflections
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Channel
15. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Stereo-typing
Monotone
Small Group
Terminal Credibility
16. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Problem Solving (small)
Preparation Outline
Hypothetical Example
Speech of Introduction
17. The speed at which a person speaks.
Median
Clutter
Preview Statement
Rate
18. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Nonverbal Communication
Causal Reasoning
Criteria
Supporting Materials
19. A detailed outline developed during the process of speech preparation that includes the title - specific purpose - central idea - introduction - main points - sub points - connectives - conclusion - and bibliography of a speech.
Example
Preparation Outline
Pause
Maintenance Needs
20. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Delivery Cues
Critical Thinking
Small Group
Initial Credibility
21. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Causal Order
Vocal Variety
Pitch
22. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Symposium
False Cause
Paraphrase
Visual Framework
23. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Question of Policy
Delivery Cues
Repetition
Pronunciation
24. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Stereo-typing
Vocal Variety
Direct Quotation
Logos
25. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Visualization
Reflective-Thinking Method
Conversational Quality
Pitch
26. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Ad Hominem
Simile
Listening
Reasoning from Principle
27. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Eye Contact
Rhythm
Ad Hominem
Simile
28. 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.
Problem-Solution Order
Causal Order
Conversational Quality
Causal Reasoning
29. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotative Meaning
Topical Order
Oral Report
Critical Listening
30. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Reasoning from Principle
Terminal Credibility
Frame of Reference
Expert Testimony
31. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Oral Report
Listener
Either-Or
Analogical Reasoning
32. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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33. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Causal Order
Rhythm
Speaker
Derived Credibility
34. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Dissolve Ending
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Repetition
Main Points
35. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Connotative Meaning
Bandwagon
Commemorative Speech
Reasoning from Specific Instances
36. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Impromptu Speech
Metaphor
Central Idea
Ad Hominem
37. 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.
Median
Dissolve Ending
Analogical Reasoning
Ethos
38. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Red Herring
Kinesics
Active Listening
39. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Specific Purpose
Dissolve Ending
Leadership
Hypothetical Example
40. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Connotative Meaning
Rhythm
Critical Thinking
Identification
41. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Panel Discussion
Vocalized Pause
Parallelism
Hypothetical Example
42. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Median
Bibliography
Logos
After-Dinner Speech
43. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Testimony
Crescendo Ending
After-Dinner Speech
Preparation Outline
44. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Name-calling
Vocal Variety
Simile
Topical Order
45. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Median
Testimony
Demographic Audience Analysis
Initial Credibility
46. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Credibility
Connotative Meaning
Derived Credibility
Residual Message
47. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Vocal Variety
Chronological Order
Bibliography
Dialect
48. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Causal Order
Emergent Leader
Simile
Rhetorical Question
49. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Specific Purpose
Generic 'he'
Emphatic Listening
Imagery
50. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Pitch
Articulation
Scale Questions
Patchwork Plagiarism