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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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2. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Maintenance Needs
Appreciative Listening
Adrenaline
Rhythm
3. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Kinesics
Frame of Reference
Generic 'he'
Open-Ended Questions
4. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Open-Ended Questions
Hypothetical Example
Pronunciation
Simile
5. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Transition
Preparation Outline
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Inflections
6. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Active Listening
Question of Policy
Supporting Materials
Gestures
7. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Paraphrase
Attitude
Speech of Introduction
Internal Preview
8. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Rate
Vocal Variety
Egocentrism
Bill of Rights
9. 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.
Ethics
Emphatic Listening
Problem-Solution Order
Ethos
10. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethnocentrism
Speech of Introduction
Procedural Needs
Ethos
11. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Symposium
Nonverbal Communication
Expert Testimony
Median
12. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Stereo-typing
Channel
Spare Brain Time
Incremental Plagiarism
13. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Criteria
Terminal Credibility
Concrete Words
Hidden Agenda
14. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Parallelism
Statistics
Ethnocentrism
Scale Questions
15. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Situation
Analogical Reasoning
Bibliography
Feedback
16. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Central Idea
Reasoning
Egocentrism
Strategic Organization
17. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Strategic Organization
Emphatic Listening
Speech of Introduction
Residual Message
18. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Conversational Quality
Consensus
Analogical Reasoning
19. The means by which a message is communicated.
Bill of Rights
Channel
Speaking Outline
Global Plagiarism
20. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Specific Purpose
Emergent Leader
Either-Or
Simile
21. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Critical Thinking
Plagiarism
Stage Fright
Designated Leader
22. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Listener
Reasoning
Derived Credibility
Appreciative Listening
23. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Emphatic Listening
Slippery Slope
Speech of Presentation
Spatial Order
24. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Slippery Slope
Paraphrase
Median
Antithesis
25. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Implied Leader
Egocentrism
Maintenance Needs
Critical Listening
26. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Main Points
Listening
Abstract Words
Designated Leader
27. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Initial Credibility
Central Idea
Causal Order
28. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Articulation
Causal Reasoning
Red Herring
Chronological Order
29. The subject of a speech.
Preview Statement
Topic
Symposium
Speech of Presentation
30. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Bill of Rights
Demographic Audience Analysis
Hidden Agenda
Bibliography
31. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Ethical Decisions
Key-word Outline
Small Group
Creating Common Grounds
32. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Evidence
Mean
Speech of Introduction
Logos
33. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Denotative Meaning
Dissolve Ending
Situation
Volume
34. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Rhetorical Question
Causal Reasoning
Frame of Reference
Rhythm
35. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Hearing
Direct Quotation
Reflective-Thinking Method
Quoting out of Context
36. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Monotone
Topic
Abstract Words
Preview Statement
37. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Panel Discussion
Brief Example
Denotative Meaning
Reflective-Thinking Method
38. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Acceptance Speech
Terminal Credibility
Median
Ethics
39. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Expert Testimony
Positive nervousness
False Cause
Signpost
40. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Signpost
Acceptance Speech
Hypothetical Example
Situational Audience Analysis
41. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Expert Testimony
Extemporaneous Speech
Hasty Generalization
Implied Leader
42. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Expert Testimony
Transition
Dissolve Ending
Rate
43. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Red Herring
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Positive nervousness
Quoting out of Context
44. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Either-Or
Speaking Outline
Criteria
Goodwill
45. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Emphatic Listening
Speech of Presentation
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Ad Hominem
46. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Bibliography
Supporting Materials
Parallelism
Procedural Needs
47. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Small Group
Signpost
Critical Listening
Comprehensive Listening
48. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Initial Credibility
Internal Summary
Goodwill
Task Needs
49. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Supporting Materials
Criteria
Hidden Agenda
Imagery
50. A group of two people.
Small Group
Dyad
Main Points
Rhythm
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