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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. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Hearing
Median
Gestures
Ethics
2. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Hidden Agenda
False Cause
Derived Credibility
Abstract Words
3. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Fallacy
Channel
Terminal Credibility
Patchwork Plagiarism
4. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Specific Purpose
Question of Policy
Repetition
Strategic Organization
5. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Emergent Leader
Connotative Meaning
Nonverbal Communication
Slippery Slope
6. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Topical Order
Audience-Centeredness
Name-calling
Extemporaneous Speech
7. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Concrete Words
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Open-Ended Questions
Hypothetical Example
8. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Bandwagon
Clutter
Central Idea
Pause
9. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Hasty Generalization
Problem-Solution Order
Listener
Credibility
10. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Interference
Attitude
Dissolve Ending
Frame of Reference
11. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Critical Listening
Expert Testimony
Scale Questions
Pronunciation
12. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Visualization
Alliteration
Bandwagon
Rhythm
13. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Speech of Introduction
Eye Contact
Testimony
Creating Common Grounds
14. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Evidence
Denotative Meaning
Listener
Pause
15. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Red Herring
Audience-Centeredness
Mean
16. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Generic 'he'
Pathos
Nonverbal Communication
Pronunciation
17. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Hasty Generalization
Acceptance Speech
Extemporaneous Speech
Initial Credibility
18. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Stereo-typing
Acceptance Speech
Scale Questions
Clutter
19. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Feedback
Mean
Residual Message
Conversational Quality
20. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Imagery
Small Group
Designated Leader
Brief Example
21. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Ethos
Pronunciation
Preparation Outline
Invalid Analogy
22. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Acceptance Speech
Generic 'he'
Extemporaneous Speech
Designated Leader
23. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Dialect
Generic 'he'
Antithesis
Supporting Materials
24. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Spatial Order
Volume
Repetition
Acceptance Speech
25. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Rhetorical Question
Reasoning from Principle
Consensus
Transition
26. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Initial Credibility
Dissolve Ending
Attitude
Designated Leader
27. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Causal Reasoning
Creating Common Grounds
Designated Leader
Rate
28. Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve a particular result with a particular audience.
Paraphrase
Testimony
Gestures
Strategic Organization
29. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Creating Common Grounds
Demographic Audience Analysis
Manuscript Speech
Specific Purpose
30. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Scale Questions
Oral Report
Spatial Order
Simile
31. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Initial Credibility
Global Plagiarism
Scale Questions
Derived Credibility
32. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Procedural Needs
Hearing
Articulation
False Cause
33. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Impromptu Speech
After-Dinner Speech
Parallelism
Testimony
34. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Rate
Cliche
Plagiarism
Terminal Credibility
35. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Ethics
Feedback
Dissolve Ending
Pitch
36. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Active Listening
Commemorative Speech
Panel Discussion
Antithesis
37. The subject of a speech.
Imagery
Stereo-typing
Topic
Global Plagiarism
38. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Appreciative Listening
Delivery Cues
Ad Hominem
Key-word Outline
39. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Vocalized Pause
Red Herring
Abstract Words
Median
40. The speed at which a person speaks.
Crescendo Ending
Rate
Internal Preview
Derived Credibility
41. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Strategic Organization
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Hearing
Imagery
42. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Eye Contact
Symposium
Specific Purpose
Speaking Outline
43. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Preparation Outline
Monotone
Pitch
44. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Spatial Order
Credibility
Oral Report
Signpost
45. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Attitude
Speaker
Task Needs
Spare Brain Time
46. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Listening
Expert Testimony
Median
Oral Report
47. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Adrenaline
Topic
Attitude
Egocentrism
48. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Specific Purpose
Direct Quotation
Hypothetical Example
Small Group
49. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Reasoning from Principle
Task Needs
Derived Credibility
Reasoning
50. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Nonverbal Communication
Credibility
Global Plagiarism
Denotative Meaning