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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. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Identification
Emphatic Listening
Red Herring
Rhetorical Question
2. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Dialect
Delivery Cues
Concrete Words
Generic 'he'
3. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Speech of Presentation
Alliteration
Logos
Task Needs
4. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Hidden Agenda
Antithesis
Ethical Decisions
Question of Policy
5. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Implied Leader
Speaker
Dyad
Oral Report
6. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Extemporaneous Speech
Pause
Leadership
7. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Manuscript Speech
Reasoning from Principle
Symposium
Ethics
8. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Red Herring
Paraphrase
Name-calling
Problem Solving (small)
9. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Conversational Quality
Alliteration
Main Points
Procedural Needs
10. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Scale Questions
Topic
Dissolve Ending
Reasoning from Specific Instances
11. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Ethics
Preview Statement
Causal Reasoning
12. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
After-Dinner Speech
Small Group
Speaking Outline
Hearing
13. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Ethnocentrism
Vocalized Pause
Reasoning
Slippery Slope
14. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Speech of Introduction
Articulation
Quoting out of Context
Central Idea
15. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Residual Message
Evidence
Expert Testimony
Oral Report
16. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Eye Contact
Credibility
Speaking Outline
Paraphrase
17. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Consensus
Impromptu Speech
Small Group
Speech of Introduction
18. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Causal Order
Visual Framework
Credibility
Active Listening
19. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
After-Dinner Speech
Rhythm
Adrenaline
Dissolve Ending
20. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Appreciative Listening
Internal Preview
Terminal Credibility
Speech of Introduction
21. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Parallelism
Consensus
Reasoning
Reasoning from Specific Instances
22. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Hidden Agenda
Spatial Order
Nonverbal Communication
Evidence
23. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Credibility
Abstract Words
Problem Solving (small)
Preview Statement
24. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Red Herring
Pathos
Central Idea
Speaker
25. A trite or over uesd expression.
Repetition
Hidden Agenda
Cliche
Connective
26. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Connotative Meaning
Signpost
Example
Extemporaneous Speech
27. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Antithesis
Stereo-typing
Commemorative Speech
Speaking Outline
28. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Pitch
Dyad
Simile
Oral Report
29. The subject of a speech.
Feedback
Credibility
Speech of Presentation
Topic
30. 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.'
Name-calling
False Cause
Derived Credibility
Repetition
31. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Egocentrism
Vocal Variety
Antithesis
Goodwill
32. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Problem-Solution Order
Name-calling
Commemorative Speech
Residual Message
33. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Generic 'he'
Attitude
Hearing
Main Points
34. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Maintenance Needs
Logos
Emphatic Listening
Problem Solving (small)
35. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Appreciative Listening
Analogical Reasoning
Vocalized Pause
Median
36. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Consensus
Procedural Needs
Either-Or
Spare Brain Time
37. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Acceptance Speech
Abstract Words
38. Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve a particular result with a particular audience.
Strategic Organization
Spare Brain Time
Designated Leader
Extemporaneous Speech
39. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Internal Preview
Direct Quotation
Problem Solving (small)
Pitch
40. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Crescendo Ending
Bibliography
Peer Testimony
Ethics
41. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Derived Credibility
Critical Listening
Crescendo Ending
Topic
42. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Abstract Words
Hidden Agenda
Strategic Organization
Manuscript Speech
43. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Kinesics
Speech of Introduction
Spatial Order
Manuscript Speech
44. 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
Dyad
Patchwork Plagiarism
Name-calling
45. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Incremental Plagiarism
Hearing
Critical Thinking
Logos
46. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Scale Questions
Identification
Creating Common Grounds
Rhythm
47. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Appreciative Listening
Stage Fright
Repetition
Speaker
48. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Repetition
Patchwork Plagiarism
Goodwill
Panel Discussion
49. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Egocentrism
Transition
Eye Contact
50. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Key-word Outline
Pronunciation
Residual Message
Antithesis