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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Problem Solving (small)
Maintenance Needs
Derived Credibility
Conversational Quality
2. The average value of a group of numbers.
Mean
Leadership
Credibility
Creating Common Grounds
3. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Situational Audience Analysis
Gestures
Ethos
4. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Invalid Analogy
Global Plagiarism
Demographic Audience Analysis
Clutter
5. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Parallelism
Strategic Organization
Paraphrase
Ethnocentrism
6. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Concrete Words
Commemorative Speech
Speech of Presentation
Listening
7. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Expert Testimony
Generic 'he'
Logos
Criteria
8. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Adrenaline
Expert Testimony
Preparation Outline
Consensus
9. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Audience-Centeredness
Example
Strategic Organization
Dissolve Ending
10. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Speaker
Specific Purpose
Kinesics
Derived Credibility
11. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Speaking Outline
Task Needs
Name-calling
Adrenaline
12. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Crescendo Ending
Preview Statement
Causal Order
Active Listening
13. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Peer Testimony
Transition
Preparation Outline
Goodwill
14. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Topic
Chronological Order
Preparation Outline
Speech of Introduction
15. A group of two people.
Imagery
Internal Summary
Dyad
False Cause
16. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Preparation Outline
Antithesis
Statistics
Initial Credibility
17. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Credibility
Critical Thinking
Speech of Introduction
Speaking Outline
18. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Ethical Decisions
Appreciative Listening
Delivery Cues
Credibility
19. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Derived Credibility
Antithesis
Question of Policy
20. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Extemporaneous Speech
Specific Purpose
Bill of Rights
Quoting out of Context
21. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Dialect
Inflections
Rhetorical Question
Vocal Variety
22. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Parallelism
Listener
Dissolve Ending
Interference
23. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Generic 'he'
Incremental Plagiarism
Analogical Reasoning
Slippery Slope
24. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Alliteration
Internal Summary
Denotative Meaning
Channel
25. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Inflections
Consensus
Simile
Derived Credibility
26. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Hidden Agenda
Acceptance Speech
Metaphor
Comprehensive Listening
27. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Pathos
Key-word Outline
Reasoning
Stereo-typing
28. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Kinesics
Criteria
Commemorative Speech
Fixed-Alternative Questions
29. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Red Herring
Terminal Credibility
Internal Preview
Paraphrase
30. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Frame of Reference
Causal Reasoning
Procedural Needs
Message
31. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Parallelism
Denotative Meaning
Initial Credibility
Pause
32. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Pause
Panel Discussion
Creating Common Grounds
Inflections
33. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Pause
Hypothetical Example
Situation
Kinesics
34. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Connotative Meaning
Imagery
Pause
Analogical Reasoning
35. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Eye Contact
Oral Report
Pause
Signpost
36. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Incremental Plagiarism
Crescendo Ending
Scale Questions
Feedback
37. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Critical Listening
Mean
Internal Summary
Creating Common Grounds
38. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Dyad
Terminal Credibility
Internal Preview
39. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Message
Ethical Decisions
Spare Brain Time
Cliche
40. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Terminal Credibility
Spare Brain Time
Connotative Meaning
Reasoning
41. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Internal Preview
Spare Brain Time
Bibliography
Residual Message
42. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Ad Hominem
Acceptance Speech
Abstract Words
Eye Contact
43. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Initial Credibility
Reasoning from Principle
Preparation Outline
Nonverbal Communication
44. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Bibliography
Delivery Cues
Inflections
Concrete Words
45. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Hidden Agenda
Consensus
Egocentrism
Maintenance Needs
46. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Terminal Credibility
Emphatic Listening
Kinesics
Gestures
47. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Panel Discussion
Problem-Solution Order
Ethics
Monotone
48. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Monotone
Residual Message
Median
Invalid Analogy
49. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Transition
Articulation
Bandwagon
Monotone
50. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Quoting out of Context
Small Group
Demographic Audience Analysis
Invalid Analogy