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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. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Peer Testimony
Rate
Bill of Rights
Demographic Audience Analysis
2. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Dialect
Connective
Vocalized Pause
Name-calling
3. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Global Plagiarism
Bill of Rights
Adrenaline
Topical Order
4. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Repetition
Identification
Symposium
Positive nervousness
5. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Spatial Order
Feedback
Bibliography
Vocalized Pause
6. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Internal Preview
Pathos
Appreciative Listening
7. 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.
Spare Brain Time
Situational Audience Analysis
Audience-Centeredness
Expert Testimony
8. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Slippery Slope
Concrete Words
Transition
Name-calling
9. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Internal Preview
Task Needs
Vocal Variety
Leadership
10. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Hasty Generalization
Inflections
Expert Testimony
Visualization
11. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Internal Summary
Speaking Outline
Abstract Words
Topical Order
12. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Red Herring
Message
Cliche
Hearing
13. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Interference
Statistics
Cliche
Delivery Cues
14. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Residual Message
Connective
Peer Testimony
Listening
15. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Specific Purpose
Small Group
Alliteration
Incremental Plagiarism
16. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Rate
Testimony
Hasty Generalization
Direct Quotation
17. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Adrenaline
Scale Questions
Statistics
Analogical Reasoning
18. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Plagiarism
Spare Brain Time
Credibility
Commemorative Speech
19. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Delivery Cues
Consensus
Derived Credibility
Stage Fright
20. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Quoting out of Context
Example
Credibility
Supporting Materials
21. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Channel
Key-word Outline
Denotative Meaning
Bandwagon
22. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Antithesis
Problem Solving (small)
Small Group
Generic 'he'
23. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Ethics
Hearing
Slippery Slope
Positive nervousness
24. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Comprehensive Listening
Kinesics
Ethical Decisions
Transition
25. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Gestures
Dyad
Consensus
26. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Speech of Presentation
Positive nervousness
Parallelism
Consensus
27. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Bandwagon
Problem Solving (small)
Ad Hominem
Implied Leader
28. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Quoting out of Context
Central Idea
Procedural Needs
Conversational Quality
29. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Example
Vocalized Pause
Frame of Reference
Critical Thinking
30. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Pronunciation
Positive nervousness
Dyad
Impromptu Speech
31. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Internal Summary
Stereo-typing
Ethos
Speech of Presentation
32. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Plagiarism
Name-calling
Eye Contact
Appreciative Listening
33. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Statistics
Ethical Decisions
Causal Order
Reasoning from Specific Instances
34. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Spare Brain Time
Acceptance Speech
Terminal Credibility
Pitch
35. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Peer Testimony
Metaphor
Credibility
Inflections
36. A trite or over uesd expression.
Nonverbal Communication
Incremental Plagiarism
Dissolve Ending
Cliche
37. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Paraphrase
Preview Statement
Situational Audience Analysis
Positive nervousness
38. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Internal Preview
Scale Questions
Chronological Order
Ethical Decisions
39. 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.
Plagiarism
Commemorative Speech
Problem-Solution Order
Stereo-typing
40. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Topical Order
Metaphor
Red Herring
Key-word Outline
41. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Name-calling
Credibility
Stage Fright
Specific Purpose
42. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Adrenaline
Visual Framework
Manuscript Speech
Inflections
43. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Red Herring
Scale Questions
Goodwill
Eye Contact
44. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Open-Ended Questions
Crescendo Ending
Cliche
Pitch
45. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Criteria
Conversational Quality
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Identification
46. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Question of Policy
Egocentrism
Quoting out of Context
Denotative Meaning
47. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Ethics
Emphatic Listening
Goodwill
48. 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.
Analogical Reasoning
Ethical Decisions
Problem-Solution Order
Pathos
49. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Analogical Reasoning
Incremental Plagiarism
Specific Purpose
Critical Thinking
50. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Concrete Words
Implied Leader
Stereo-typing
Emergent Leader