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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. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Extemporaneous Speech
Critical Thinking
Plagiarism
Terminal Credibility
2. Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve a particular result with a particular audience.
Creating Common Grounds
Strategic Organization
Parallelism
Open-Ended Questions
3. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Eye Contact
Implied Leader
Simile
Paraphrase
4. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Derived Credibility
Procedural Needs
Example
Incremental Plagiarism
5. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Comprehensive Listening
Strategic Organization
Cliche
6. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Kinesics
Mean
Preparation Outline
Brief Example
7. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Topical Order
Pronunciation
Brief Example
Reasoning from Specific Instances
8. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Hypothetical Example
Oral Report
Goodwill
Message
9. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Articulation
Inflections
Repetition
Creating Common Grounds
10. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Topical Order
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Spare Brain Time
Gestures
11. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Critical Thinking
Rhythm
Visualization
Incremental Plagiarism
12. 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.
Transition
Hasty Generalization
Analogical Reasoning
Feedback
13. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Maintenance Needs
Situational Audience Analysis
Stereo-typing
Emphatic Listening
14. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Listening
Imagery
Incremental Plagiarism
Fallacy
15. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Dialect
Ethos
Conversational Quality
Main Points
16. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Residual Message
Implied Leader
Patchwork Plagiarism
Pause
17. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Global Plagiarism
Pause
Concrete Words
Analogical Reasoning
18. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Reasoning from Principle
Metaphor
Central Idea
Speech of Introduction
19. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Repetition
Frame of Reference
Credibility
Expert Testimony
20. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Listening
Task Needs
Terminal Credibility
Antithesis
21. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Residual Message
Inflections
Plagiarism
Message
22. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Metaphor
Conversational Quality
Internal Summary
Vocal Variety
23. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Global Plagiarism
Pause
Peer Testimony
Nonverbal Communication
24. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Mean
Positive nervousness
Conversational Quality
Message
25. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Causal Order
Maintenance Needs
Supporting Materials
Parallelism
26. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Consensus
Brief Example
Critical Listening
Visual Framework
27. 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.
Plagiarism
Preparation Outline
Emphatic Listening
Emergent Leader
28. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Visualization
Question of Policy
Internal Summary
Rhetorical Question
29. A trite or over uesd expression.
Cliche
Patchwork Plagiarism
Generic 'he'
Internal Summary
30. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Reasoning
Visualization
Kinesics
Supporting Materials
31. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Impromptu Speech
Symposium
Vocalized Pause
Bill of Rights
32. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Transition
Main Points
Initial Credibility
Crescendo Ending
33. 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.
Connective
Problem-Solution Order
Abstract Words
Dissolve Ending
34. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Listening
Volume
Nonverbal Communication
Logos
35. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Adrenaline
Vocal Variety
Gestures
Cliche
36. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Gestures
Impromptu Speech
Ad Hominem
Paraphrase
37. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Extemporaneous Speech
Peer Testimony
Pathos
Oral Report
38. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Red Herring
Preview Statement
Symposium
Bill of Rights
39. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Testimony
Ad Hominem
Conversational Quality
Connotative Meaning
40. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Alliteration
Crescendo Ending
Leadership
Speaker
41. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Example
Pause
Derived Credibility
Emergent Leader
42. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Rhetorical Question
Metaphor
Pathos
Egocentrism
43. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Pathos
Criteria
Cliche
Paraphrase
44. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Credibility
Vocal Variety
Maintenance Needs
Egocentrism
45. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Task Needs
Leadership
Open-Ended Questions
Metaphor
46. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Mean
Concrete Words
Central Idea
Metaphor
47. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Cliche
Attitude
Gestures
Listener
48. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Signpost
Speech of Introduction
Symposium
Generic 'he'
49. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Spatial Order
Ad Hominem
Scale Questions
Speaking Outline
50. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Attitude
Panel Discussion
Internal Preview
Concrete Words