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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Symposium
Example
Preparation Outline
Positive nervousness
2. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Delivery Cues
Open-Ended Questions
Initial Credibility
Strategic Organization
3. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Acceptance Speech
Connective
Dyad
Antithesis
4. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Credibility
Message
Residual Message
Evidence
5. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Speech of Presentation
Simile
Task Needs
6. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Identification
Inflections
Speaker
Imagery
7. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Red Herring
Preview Statement
Rhythm
Nonverbal Communication
8. An error in reasoning.
Task Needs
Fallacy
Either-Or
Interference
9. The speed at which a person speaks.
Emphatic Listening
Hearing
Task Needs
Rate
10. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Problem Solving (small)
Pitch
Rhetorical Question
Maintenance Needs
11. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Global Plagiarism
Pronunciation
Nonverbal Communication
Critical Thinking
12. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Gestures
Nonverbal Communication
Repetition
13. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Invalid Analogy
Parallelism
Reflective-Thinking Method
Hidden Agenda
14. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Listener
Emergent Leader
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Creating Common Grounds
15. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Antithesis
Task Needs
Speech of Presentation
Quoting out of Context
16. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Pause
Strategic Organization
Problem-Solution Order
Speech of Presentation
17. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Logos
Positive nervousness
Bibliography
18. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Initial Credibility
Goodwill
Simile
Kinesics
19. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Dialect
Main Points
Speaker
Ad Hominem
20. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Spatial Order
Criteria
Positive nervousness
Brief Example
21. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotative Meaning
Paraphrase
Hypothetical Example
Either-Or
22. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Ad Hominem
Topic
Topical Order
Causal Order
23. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Chronological Order
Listener
Nonverbal Communication
Hearing
24. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Visualization
Either-Or
Rhetorical Question
Paraphrase
25. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Transition
Active Listening
Quoting out of Context
Egocentrism
26. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Paraphrase
Pronunciation
Global Plagiarism
Criteria
27. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Manuscript Speech
Slippery Slope
Crescendo Ending
Adrenaline
28. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Terminal Credibility
Reasoning
Consensus
Ad Hominem
29. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Connotative Meaning
Causal Reasoning
Cliche
Kinesics
30. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Ad Hominem
Criteria
Identification
Task Needs
31. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Clutter
Incremental Plagiarism
Articulation
32. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Abstract Words
Stereo-typing
Chronological Order
Derived Credibility
33. The subject of a speech.
Identification
Specific Purpose
Chronological Order
Topic
34. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Repetition
Listener
Ethical Decisions
Spatial Order
35. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Main Points
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Bibliography
36. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Crescendo Ending
Appreciative Listening
Reasoning from Principle
Logos
37. 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.
Internal Preview
Crescendo Ending
Internal Summary
Situational Audience Analysis
38. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Creating Common Grounds
Delivery Cues
Name-calling
Specific Purpose
39. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Supporting Materials
Denotative Meaning
Crescendo Ending
Monotone
40. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Specific Purpose
Key-word Outline
False Cause
Incremental Plagiarism
41. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Hidden Agenda
Emphatic Listening
Fallacy
Attitude
42. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Visualization
Attitude
Demographic Audience Analysis
43. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Conversational Quality
Hypothetical Example
Speaker
After-Dinner Speech
44. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Spare Brain Time
Articulation
Alliteration
45. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Eye Contact
Designated Leader
Supporting Materials
Reasoning
46. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Chronological Order
Speech of Presentation
False Cause
Slippery Slope
47. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Hidden Agenda
Ethos
Attitude
Repetition
48. 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.'
Rhetorical Question
Inflections
False Cause
Residual Message
49. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Alliteration
Procedural Needs
Speech of Introduction
Direct Quotation
50. A trite or over uesd expression.
Paraphrase
Reasoning
Cliche
Symposium
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