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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 person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Alliteration
Pause
Articulation
Speaker
2. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
After-Dinner Speech
Panel Discussion
Spare Brain Time
3. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Positive nervousness
Causal Reasoning
Open-Ended Questions
Supporting Materials
4. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Slippery Slope
Demographic Audience Analysis
Channel
Example
5. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Signpost
Logos
Key-word Outline
Acceptance Speech
6. The means by which a message is communicated.
Channel
Active Listening
Pitch
Nonverbal Communication
7. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Specific Purpose
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Incremental Plagiarism
Vocalized Pause
8. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Articulation
Leadership
Rhetorical Question
Pitch
9. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Internal Preview
Slippery Slope
Problem Solving (small)
Panel Discussion
10. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Antithesis
Bibliography
Connotative Meaning
Analogical Reasoning
11. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Global Plagiarism
Hasty Generalization
Either-Or
False Cause
12. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Hypothetical Example
Parallelism
Generic 'he'
Strategic Organization
13. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Reasoning
Rhythm
Connective
Manuscript Speech
14. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Inflections
Manuscript Speech
Comprehensive Listening
Bandwagon
15. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Bill of Rights
Repetition
Articulation
Frame of Reference
16. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Median
Manuscript Speech
Attitude
Problem-Solution Order
17. A trite or over uesd expression.
Cliche
Spatial Order
Stereo-typing
Oral Report
18. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Repetition
Speech of Presentation
Antithesis
Pause
19. The subject of a speech.
Critical Thinking
Credibility
Paraphrase
Topic
20. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Initial Credibility
Connective
Ad Hominem
Repetition
21. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Implied Leader
Emergent Leader
Open-Ended Questions
Hypothetical Example
22. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Brief Example
Testimony
Denotative Meaning
Paraphrase
23. A group of two people.
Speech of Presentation
Panel Discussion
Internal Preview
Dyad
24. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Hearing
Appreciative Listening
Comprehensive Listening
Incremental Plagiarism
25. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Pause
Monotone
Vocal Variety
Patchwork Plagiarism
26. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Evidence
Adrenaline
Extemporaneous Speech
27. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Credibility
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Signpost
Symposium
28. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Message
Demographic Audience Analysis
Testimony
Antithesis
29. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Adrenaline
Stereo-typing
Chronological Order
Conversational Quality
30. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Pathos
Hidden Agenda
Rhythm
Name-calling
31. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Statistics
Speaker
Denotative Meaning
Symposium
32. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Alliteration
Concrete Words
Stereo-typing
Fixed-Alternative Questions
33. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Brief Example
Denotative Meaning
Bandwagon
Main Points
34. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Metaphor
Evidence
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Problem-Solution Order
35. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Articulation
Appreciative Listening
Task Needs
Preview Statement
36. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Example
Impromptu Speech
Speech of Presentation
Eye Contact
37. The average value of a group of numbers.
Mean
Articulation
Statistics
Commemorative Speech
38. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Imagery
Abstract Words
Residual Message
Analogical Reasoning
39. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Alliteration
Ad Hominem
Creating Common Grounds
Direct Quotation
40. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Denotative Meaning
Speech of Introduction
Preview Statement
Kinesics
41. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Frame of Reference
Evidence
Causal Reasoning
Denotative Meaning
42. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Name-calling
Slippery Slope
Peer Testimony
Patchwork Plagiarism
43. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Alliteration
Clutter
Cliche
Central Idea
44. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Procedural Needs
Acceptance Speech
Signpost
Internal Summary
45. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Speaker
Metaphor
Speech of Introduction
Paraphrase
46. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Leadership
Bibliography
Either-Or
Patchwork Plagiarism
47. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Manuscript Speech
Open-Ended Questions
Listener
Paraphrase
48. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Impromptu Speech
Question of Policy
Gestures
Dialect
49. A constant tone or pitch of voice.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Monotone
Cliche
Simile
50. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Criteria
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Kinesics
Main Points