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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Procedural Needs
Audience-Centeredness
After-Dinner Speech
Dissolve Ending
2. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Emphatic Listening
Speech of Introduction
Either-Or
Median
3. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Incremental Plagiarism
Small Group
Situational Audience Analysis
Bill of Rights
4. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Comprehensive Listening
Antithesis
Peer Testimony
Central Idea
5. A constant tone or pitch of voice.
Monotone
After-Dinner Speech
Oral Report
Statistics
6. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Example
Topical Order
Causal Reasoning
Feedback
7. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Imagery
Eye Contact
Demographic Audience Analysis
Parallelism
8. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Symposium
Pitch
Initial Credibility
Inflections
9. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Residual Message
Transition
Pitch
Red Herring
10. 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
Adrenaline
Key-word Outline
Stereo-typing
11. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Emphatic Listening
Reflective-Thinking Method
Interference
Critical Thinking
12. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Articulation
Connective
Impromptu Speech
Evidence
13. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Cliche
Bibliography
Eye Contact
14. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethos
Oral Report
Antithesis
Articulation
15. 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
Identification
Listener
Active Listening
16. 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.'
Paraphrase
False Cause
Question of Policy
Volume
17. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Derived Credibility
Preview Statement
Supporting Materials
Impromptu Speech
18. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Monotone
Critical Listening
Pronunciation
Identification
19. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Causal Reasoning
Inflections
Gestures
Rhythm
20. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Testimony
Quoting out of Context
Active Listening
Creating Common Grounds
21. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Speaker
Slippery Slope
Feedback
Nonverbal Communication
22. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Specific Purpose
Rate
Fallacy
23. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Critical Listening
Designated Leader
Key-word Outline
Simile
24. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Acceptance Speech
Repetition
Ad Hominem
Reasoning from Specific Instances
25. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Emergent Leader
Connective
Either-Or
Median
26. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Gestures
Generic 'he'
Speech of Presentation
Question of Policy
27. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Plagiarism
Criteria
Task Needs
Hidden Agenda
28. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Internal Preview
Direct Quotation
Listener
29. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Alliteration
Abstract Words
Consensus
Pronunciation
30. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Parallelism
Frame of Reference
Terminal Credibility
Bill of Rights
31. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Rhetorical Question
Channel
Ethics
Positive nervousness
32. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Initial Credibility
Designated Leader
Topical Order
Volume
33. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Visual Framework
Central Idea
Visualization
Impromptu Speech
34. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Preparation Outline
Kinesics
Symposium
Central Idea
35. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Impromptu Speech
Hasty Generalization
Monotone
Scale Questions
36. A trite or over uesd expression.
Consensus
Topical Order
Pathos
Cliche
37. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Nonverbal Communication
Task Needs
Example
Either-Or
38. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Problem-Solution Order
Inflections
Terminal Credibility
Signpost
39. Numerical data.
Vocalized Pause
Slippery Slope
Statistics
Red Herring
40. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Main Points
Evidence
Rate
Chronological Order
41. The means by which a message is communicated.
Channel
Generic 'he'
Topic
Ethnocentrism
42. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Acceptance Speech
Testimony
Abstract Words
Statistics
43. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Feedback
Frame of Reference
Eye Contact
Ethos
44. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Gestures
Problem-Solution Order
False Cause
Listener
45. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Procedural Needs
Adrenaline
Delivery Cues
Comprehensive Listening
46. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Problem Solving (small)
Chronological Order
Hypothetical Example
Message
47. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Stage Fright
Rhetorical Question
Panel Discussion
Crescendo Ending
48. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Repetition
False Cause
Name-calling
Transition
49. Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that which is true for the first case is also true for the second.
Message
Eye Contact
Analogical Reasoning
Vocalized Pause
50. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Ethical Decisions
Open-Ended Questions
Emphatic Listening
Consensus
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