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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. 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.
Signpost
Visual Framework
Derived Credibility
Analogical Reasoning
2. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Pause
Either-Or
Open-Ended Questions
Goodwill
3. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Causal Reasoning
Extemporaneous Speech
Question of Policy
4. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
Strategic Organization
Creating Common Grounds
After-Dinner Speech
Causal Order
5. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Procedural Needs
Vocal Variety
Dialect
Spatial Order
6. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Logos
Pause
Critical Listening
Maintenance Needs
7. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Connotative Meaning
Emphatic Listening
Dyad
Slippery Slope
8. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Manuscript Speech
Parallelism
Paraphrase
Emergent Leader
9. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Hearing
Visual Framework
Vocalized Pause
Residual Message
10. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Main Points
Patchwork Plagiarism
Nonverbal Communication
Red Herring
11. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Scale Questions
Ad Hominem
Chronological Order
Open-Ended Questions
12. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Kinesics
Identification
Speaking Outline
Pause
13. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Analogical Reasoning
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Channel
Listener
14. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Crescendo Ending
Either-Or
Speaker
Global Plagiarism
15. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Commemorative Speech
Preview Statement
Key-word Outline
Fallacy
16. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Key-word Outline
Incremental Plagiarism
Either-Or
Reasoning
17. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Slippery Slope
Direct Quotation
Testimony
Internal Preview
18. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Impromptu Speech
Reasoning
Causal Order
Scale Questions
19. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Terminal Credibility
Scale Questions
Internal Preview
Hypothetical Example
20. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Main Points
Credibility
Stereo-typing
Denotative Meaning
21. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Expert Testimony
Metaphor
Audience-Centeredness
Patchwork Plagiarism
22. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Ethos
Pause
Residual Message
Median
23. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Rhetorical Question
Simile
Fallacy
False Cause
24. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Listening
Speaker
Repetition
Creating Common Grounds
25. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Denotative Meaning
Criteria
Central Idea
Ethos
26. 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.
Consensus
Example
Problem-Solution Order
After-Dinner Speech
27. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Criteria
Preparation Outline
Acceptance Speech
Audience-Centeredness
28. Numerical data.
Vocal Variety
Topic
Statistics
Speaking Outline
29. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Egocentrism
Situational Audience Analysis
Connotative Meaning
Imagery
30. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Derived Credibility
Red Herring
Dissolve Ending
Terminal Credibility
31. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Stage Fright
Speaking Outline
Demographic Audience Analysis
32. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Volume
Hidden Agenda
Connotative Meaning
Critical Listening
33. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Credibility
Monotone
Transition
Listener
34. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Terminal Credibility
Causal Order
Topical Order
Speaker
35. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Concrete Words
Name-calling
Open-Ended Questions
Audience-Centeredness
36. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Internal Summary
Critical Thinking
Denotative Meaning
Comprehensive Listening
37. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Simile
Ethnocentrism
Metaphor
Vocal Variety
38. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Frame of Reference
Pitch
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Terminal Credibility
39. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Crescendo Ending
Bill of Rights
Reflective-Thinking Method
Preview Statement
40. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Active Listening
Causal Reasoning
Speaker
Ethical Decisions
41. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Audience-Centeredness
Logos
Rhythm
Frame of Reference
42. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Eye Contact
Quoting out of Context
Residual Message
Stereo-typing
43. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Statistics
False Cause
Hasty Generalization
Spare Brain Time
44. The means by which a message is communicated.
Pathos
Channel
Logos
Acceptance Speech
45. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Concrete Words
Ethnocentrism
Rhetorical Question
Metaphor
46. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Abstract Words
Testimony
Critical Listening
Brief Example
47. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Name-calling
Evidence
Paraphrase
Speech of Introduction
48. The average value of a group of numbers.
Evidence
Extemporaneous Speech
Paraphrase
Mean
49. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Hasty Generalization
Bandwagon
Listener
Logos
50. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Visualization
Commemorative Speech
Leadership
Consensus