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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 credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Hasty Generalization
Parallelism
Initial Credibility
Panel Discussion
2. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Critical Thinking
Speaking Outline
Specific Purpose
Spare Brain Time
3. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Preparation Outline
Listening
Identification
Extemporaneous Speech
4. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Connective
Speech of Introduction
Nonverbal Communication
Positive nervousness
5. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Red Herring
Active Listening
Attitude
Problem Solving (small)
6. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Testimony
Problem Solving (small)
Active Listening
Task Needs
7. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Oral Report
Feedback
Repetition
Panel Discussion
8. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Metaphor
Hearing
Question of Policy
Patchwork Plagiarism
9. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Active Listening
Supporting Materials
Reasoning from Principle
After-Dinner Speech
10. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Small Group
Commemorative Speech
Quoting out of Context
Paraphrase
11. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Example
Articulation
Red Herring
Goodwill
12. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Slippery Slope
Conversational Quality
Metaphor
Appreciative Listening
13. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Bandwagon
Residual Message
Spare Brain Time
Dyad
14. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Metaphor
Antithesis
Terminal Credibility
Positive nervousness
15. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Metaphor
Monotone
Bibliography
Slippery Slope
16. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Visual Framework
Situation
Antithesis
Stereo-typing
17. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Ethical Decisions
Median
Visualization
Statistics
18. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Volume
Eye Contact
Inflections
Visual Framework
19. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Incremental Plagiarism
Speaking Outline
Nonverbal Communication
20. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Simile
Terminal Credibility
Clutter
Direct Quotation
21. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Feedback
Connotative Meaning
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Delivery Cues
22. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Rhythm
Volume
Leadership
Pathos
23. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Ad Hominem
Residual Message
Designated Leader
Alliteration
24. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Alliteration
Positive nervousness
Patchwork Plagiarism
Critical Listening
25. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Problem-Solution Order
Bibliography
Demographic Audience Analysis
Strategic Organization
26. An error in causal reasoning in which a speaker mistakenly assumes that because one event follow another - the first event is the cause of the second. This error is often known by it's Latin name meaning - 'after this - therefore because of this.'
After-Dinner Speech
Hidden Agenda
Pronunciation
False Cause
27. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Nonverbal Communication
Feedback
Example
Cliche
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
Stage Fright
Example
Delivery Cues
29. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Speech of Introduction
Leadership
Small Group
Problem Solving (small)
30. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
False Cause
Paraphrase
Reflective-Thinking Method
Chronological Order
31. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Appreciative Listening
Audience-Centeredness
Kinesics
Pathos
32. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Analogical Reasoning
Inflections
Rhetorical Question
Generic 'he'
33. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Impromptu Speech
Bill of Rights
Hidden Agenda
Evidence
34. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Imagery
Monotone
Stage Fright
Reasoning
35. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Parallelism
Visual Framework
Ad Hominem
36. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Leadership
Ad Hominem
Connective
Testimony
37. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Bandwagon
Supporting Materials
Signpost
Denotative Meaning
38. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Median
Bibliography
Acceptance Speech
Procedural Needs
39. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Active Listening
Key-word Outline
Credibility
Symposium
40. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Reasoning
Hidden Agenda
Channel
Ethics
41. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Spatial Order
Logos
Invalid Analogy
Paraphrase
42. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Vocalized Pause
Small Group
Channel
Slippery Slope
43. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Transition
Problem Solving (small)
Scale Questions
Kinesics
44. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Parallelism
Acceptance Speech
Crescendo Ending
Example
45. Numerical data.
Statistics
Repetition
Credibility
Emergent Leader
46. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Vocal Variety
Question of Policy
Speech of Presentation
Initial Credibility
47. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Rhythm
Articulation
Problem Solving (small)
Internal Summary
48. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Hidden Agenda
Kinesics
Panel Discussion
Direct Quotation
49. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Logos
Either-Or
Credibility
Repetition
50. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Kinesics
Rate
Audience-Centeredness
Clutter