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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
False Cause
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Mean
Comprehensive Listening
2. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Mean
Patchwork Plagiarism
Vocalized Pause
Procedural Needs
3. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Frame of Reference
Paraphrase
Alliteration
Expert Testimony
4. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Creating Common Grounds
Name-calling
Implied Leader
Residual Message
5. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Incremental Plagiarism
Identification
Speaking Outline
Creating Common Grounds
6. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Reasoning from Principle
Stage Fright
Brief Example
Connotative Meaning
7. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Ethical Decisions
Message
Impromptu Speech
Topic
8. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Topical Order
Causal Reasoning
Speaker
Articulation
9. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Causal Reasoning
Speech of Presentation
Feedback
Chronological Order
10. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Slippery Slope
Adrenaline
Main Points
Visual Framework
11. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Extemporaneous Speech
Topic
Reasoning
Reasoning from Principle
12. A trite or over uesd expression.
Cliche
Ethnocentrism
Acceptance Speech
Pause
13. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Visualization
Situational Audience Analysis
Global Plagiarism
Small Group
14. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Dyad
Reasoning
After-Dinner Speech
Conversational Quality
15. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Mean
Speaker
Symposium
Small Group
16. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Reasoning from Principle
Dyad
Imagery
Emphatic Listening
17. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Hypothetical Example
Ethical Decisions
Chronological Order
Comprehensive Listening
18. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Situation
Question of Policy
Pathos
Emphatic Listening
19. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Symposium
Pause
Abstract Words
Nonverbal Communication
20. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Key-word Outline
Evidence
Connotative Meaning
Concrete Words
21. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Pronunciation
Maintenance Needs
Frame of Reference
Appreciative Listening
22. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
After-Dinner Speech
Speaker
Speech of Introduction
Eye Contact
23. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Denotative Meaning
Brief Example
Quoting out of Context
Ethics
24. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Emphatic Listening
Ad Hominem
Credibility
Logos
25. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Derived Credibility
Ethnocentrism
Question of Policy
Hasty Generalization
26. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Spare Brain Time
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Specific Purpose
Analogical Reasoning
27. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Clutter
Global Plagiarism
Chronological Order
Positive nervousness
28. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Pathos
Simile
Speaker
Concrete Words
29. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotative Meaning
Cliche
Procedural Needs
Ad Hominem
30. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Question of Policy
Pitch
Rate
Plagiarism
31. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Statistics
Ethical Decisions
Active Listening
32. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Ethos
Abstract Words
Plagiarism
Delivery Cues
33. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Reasoning from Principle
Connotative Meaning
Chronological Order
Main Points
34. A group of two people.
Criteria
Causal Order
Dyad
Designated Leader
35. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Positive nervousness
Listening
Leadership
Dissolve Ending
36. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Speech of Introduction
Dialect
Ethos
Vocal Variety
37. The average value of a group of numbers.
Rhythm
Mean
Dialect
Listener
38. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Spare Brain Time
Inflections
Attitude
Ethics
39. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Vocal Variety
Either-Or
Peer Testimony
40. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Impromptu Speech
Residual Message
Egocentrism
Eye Contact
41. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Name-calling
Metaphor
Scale Questions
Crescendo Ending
42. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Example
Bandwagon
Speaker
Concrete Words
43. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Feedback
Reflective-Thinking Method
Hasty Generalization
Hidden Agenda
44. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Bandwagon
Volume
Appreciative Listening
Ethics
45. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Positive nervousness
Preview Statement
Criteria
Audience-Centeredness
46. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Topical Order
Rhythm
Manuscript Speech
Ethics
47. 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.
Pronunciation
Situational Audience Analysis
Simile
Crescendo Ending
48. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Peer Testimony
Preview Statement
Active Listening
Extemporaneous Speech
49. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Positive nervousness
Hidden Agenda
Kinesics
Logos
50. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Key-word Outline
Internal Summary
Invalid Analogy
Credibility