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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Acceptance Speech
Spare Brain Time
Central Idea
Name-calling
2. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Connotative Meaning
Terminal Credibility
Credibility
Supporting Materials
3. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Derived Credibility
Task Needs
Ethical Decisions
Alliteration
4. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
After-Dinner Speech
Conversational Quality
Critical Listening
Volume
5. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Statistics
Task Needs
Internal Preview
Testimony
6. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Evidence
Listening
Dialect
Emphatic Listening
7. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Repetition
Direct Quotation
Attitude
Analogical Reasoning
8. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Task Needs
Maintenance Needs
Question of Policy
Denotative Meaning
9. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Transition
Ethnocentrism
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Message
10. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Expert Testimony
Identification
Leadership
Hidden Agenda
11. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Pathos
Task Needs
Preparation Outline
Crescendo Ending
12. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Bandwagon
Leadership
Adrenaline
Slippery Slope
13. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Peer Testimony
Red Herring
Stage Fright
Stereo-typing
14. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Vocal Variety
Cliche
Pathos
Supporting Materials
15. 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
Leadership
Egocentrism
Visual Framework
16. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Manuscript Speech
Frame of Reference
Ethics
Scale Questions
17. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Inflections
Adrenaline
Logos
Procedural Needs
18. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Creating Common Grounds
Credibility
Imagery
Speaker
19. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Stereo-typing
Dissolve Ending
Hidden Agenda
Bill of Rights
20. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
21. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Reasoning from Principle
Attitude
Chronological Order
Strategic Organization
22. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Cliche
Credibility
Internal Preview
Expert Testimony
23. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Ad Hominem
Situation
Clutter
Spare Brain Time
24. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethos
Main Points
Listening
Reasoning from Specific Instances
25. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Terminal Credibility
Chronological Order
Credibility
Ethos
26. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Speech of Presentation
Clutter
Problem-Solution Order
Transition
27. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Oral Report
Simile
Eye Contact
Signpost
28. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Name-calling
Visual Framework
Derived Credibility
Demographic Audience Analysis
29. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Median
Extemporaneous Speech
Demographic Audience Analysis
Residual Message
30. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Maintenance Needs
Strategic Organization
Connotative Meaning
Emergent Leader
31. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Slippery Slope
Mean
Clutter
Plagiarism
32. The means by which a message is communicated.
Causal Reasoning
Metaphor
Problem Solving (small)
Channel
33. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Audience-Centeredness
Quoting out of Context
Hearing
Oral Report
34. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Evidence
Terminal Credibility
Preview Statement
Volume
35. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Kinesics
Analogical Reasoning
Task Needs
Rhetorical Question
36. 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.
Expert Testimony
Stage Fright
Preparation Outline
Vocal Variety
37. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Concrete Words
Quoting out of Context
Symposium
Leadership
38. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Kinesics
Critical Listening
Terminal Credibility
Identification
39. The subject of a speech.
Red Herring
Visual Framework
Connotative Meaning
Topic
40. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Speech of Presentation
Conversational Quality
Median
Abstract Words
41. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Either-Or
Metaphor
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Demographic Audience Analysis
42. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Quoting out of Context
Metaphor
Mean
Brief Example
43. The speed at which a person speaks.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Example
Supporting Materials
Rate
44. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Brief Example
Logos
Transition
Identification
45. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Small Group
Feedback
Generic 'he'
Gestures
46. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Pitch
Problem Solving (small)
Dialect
Vocal Variety
47. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Active Listening
Example
Parallelism
Logos
48. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
Preview Statement
Antithesis
Implied Leader
After-Dinner Speech
49. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Active Listening
Critical Thinking
Commemorative Speech
Bibliography
50. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Comprehensive Listening
Internal Summary
Global Plagiarism
Example