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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. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Signpost
Statistics
Scale Questions
Reasoning from Specific Instances
2. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Preparation Outline
Conversational Quality
Critical Thinking
Credibility
3. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Active Listening
Attitude
Example
Goodwill
4. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Brief Example
Central Idea
Hasty Generalization
Name-calling
5. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Gestures
Volume
Consensus
Credibility
6. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Quoting out of Context
Criteria
Visual Framework
Inflections
7. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Crescendo Ending
Internal Preview
Mean
Pause
8. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Rate
Incremental Plagiarism
Fallacy
Pitch
9. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Initial Credibility
Eye Contact
Causal Order
Credibility
10. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Abstract Words
Ethical Decisions
Ethics
Ethos
11. The means by which a message is communicated.
Connective
Critical Thinking
Speech of Introduction
Channel
12. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Attitude
Delivery Cues
Name-calling
Kinesics
13. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Vocal Variety
Problem Solving (small)
Derived Credibility
Repetition
14. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Denotative Meaning
Hearing
Gestures
Speaker
15. A trite or over uesd expression.
Crescendo Ending
Scale Questions
False Cause
Cliche
16. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Speaking Outline
Pathos
Audience-Centeredness
Analogical Reasoning
17. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Plagiarism
Designated Leader
Peer Testimony
Kinesics
18. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Consensus
Adrenaline
Simile
Speech of Presentation
19. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Alliteration
Acceptance Speech
Task Needs
Repetition
20. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Critical Thinking
Audience-Centeredness
Terminal Credibility
Task Needs
21. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Panel Discussion
Ethical Decisions
Simile
Peer Testimony
22. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Statistics
After-Dinner Speech
Extemporaneous Speech
Credibility
23. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Denotative Meaning
Global Plagiarism
Goodwill
24. A constant tone or pitch of voice.
Monotone
Hearing
Speech of Introduction
Antithesis
25. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Comprehensive Listening
Impromptu Speech
Pathos
Creating Common Grounds
26. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Conversational Quality
Designated Leader
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Small Group
27. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Implied Leader
Paraphrase
Egocentrism
Central Idea
28. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Gestures
Consensus
Audience-Centeredness
Feedback
29. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Fallacy
Maintenance Needs
Mean
Small Group
30. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Metaphor
Mean
Paraphrase
Preview Statement
31. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Comprehensive Listening
Reasoning from Principle
Terminal Credibility
Ethics
32. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Strategic Organization
Metaphor
Causal Order
Pathos
33. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Denotative Meaning
Emphatic Listening
Specific Purpose
Manuscript Speech
34. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Logos
Chronological Order
Cliche
Ethnocentrism
35. The speed at which a person speaks.
Commemorative Speech
Rate
Analogical Reasoning
Situational Audience Analysis
36. 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.'
Commemorative Speech
Symposium
Acceptance Speech
False Cause
37. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Volume
Main Points
Oral Report
Expert Testimony
38. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Antithesis
Manuscript Speech
Central Idea
Direct Quotation
39. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Delivery Cues
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Speech of Presentation
Brief Example
40. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Egocentrism
Eye Contact
Question of Policy
Attitude
41. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Topic
Name-calling
Identification
Active Listening
42. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Appreciative Listening
Terminal Credibility
After-Dinner Speech
Name-calling
43. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Question of Policy
Frame of Reference
Critical Thinking
Dyad
44. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Maintenance Needs
Hearing
Critical Listening
Hasty Generalization
45. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Active Listening
Critical Thinking
Patchwork Plagiarism
Generic 'he'
46. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Main Points
Paraphrase
Emphatic Listening
Imagery
47. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Pronunciation
Example
Manuscript Speech
Attitude
48. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Visualization
Key-word Outline
Stereo-typing
Listener
49. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Creating Common Grounds
Ethnocentrism
Concrete Words
Supporting Materials
50. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Listening
Pitch
Main Points
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