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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. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Positive nervousness
Specific Purpose
Expert Testimony
Volume
2. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Listening
Causal Reasoning
Reasoning from Principle
Procedural Needs
3. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Cliche
Bibliography
Maintenance Needs
Testimony
4. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Commemorative Speech
Comprehensive Listening
Quoting out of Context
Incremental Plagiarism
5. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Mean
Speech of Presentation
Metaphor
Visual Framework
6. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Audience-Centeredness
Bibliography
Bandwagon
Emergent Leader
7. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Red Herring
Stereo-typing
Oral Report
Gestures
8. An error in reasoning.
Fallacy
Slippery Slope
Channel
Appreciative Listening
9. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Chronological Order
Residual Message
Bandwagon
Listener
10. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Initial Credibility
Oral Report
Causal Reasoning
Ethnocentrism
11. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Derived Credibility
Scale Questions
Pathos
Task Needs
12. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Pathos
Quoting out of Context
Articulation
Rhetorical Question
13. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
Name-calling
After-Dinner Speech
Bandwagon
Topical Order
14. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Hypothetical Example
Delivery Cues
Hidden Agenda
Strategic Organization
15. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Direct Quotation
Global Plagiarism
Inflections
Visualization
16. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Preview Statement
Incremental Plagiarism
Speaking Outline
Abstract Words
17. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Either-Or
Pitch
Pause
Direct Quotation
18. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Crescendo Ending
Spatial Order
Concrete Words
Slippery Slope
19. 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.
Active Listening
Dissolve Ending
Clutter
Situational Audience Analysis
20. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Adrenaline
Problem-Solution Order
Median
Articulation
21. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Small Group
Conversational Quality
Speaker
Attitude
22. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Either-Or
Hearing
Pause
Articulation
23. 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.
Visualization
Leadership
Kinesics
Problem-Solution Order
24. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Comprehensive Listening
Procedural Needs
Signpost
Delivery Cues
25. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Name-calling
Listener
Speaking Outline
Stage Fright
26. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Goodwill
Inflections
Direct Quotation
Oral Report
27. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Either-Or
Vocalized Pause
Ethical Decisions
Hypothetical Example
28. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Positive nervousness
Repetition
Signpost
Designated Leader
29. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Repetition
Listening
Hidden Agenda
Credibility
30. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Internal Preview
Question of Policy
Strategic Organization
Generic 'he'
31. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Scale Questions
Consensus
Audience-Centeredness
Impromptu Speech
32. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Creating Common Grounds
Kinesics
Ethos
Critical Thinking
33. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Creating Common Grounds
Patchwork Plagiarism
Vocalized Pause
Volume
34. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Connective
Simile
Plagiarism
Spare Brain Time
35. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Volume
Red Herring
Paraphrase
Specific Purpose
36. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Topic
Initial Credibility
Critical Thinking
Nonverbal Communication
37. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Invalid Analogy
Emphatic Listening
Emergent Leader
Main Points
38. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Delivery Cues
Clutter
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Bill of Rights
39. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Stage Fright
Channel
Pitch
40. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Signpost
Residual Message
Stereo-typing
Vocal Variety
41. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Interference
Hearing
Brief Example
Connotative Meaning
42. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Listener
Vocal Variety
Logos
Internal Summary
43. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Appreciative Listening
Implied Leader
Speaking Outline
Mean
44. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Manuscript Speech
Message
Acceptance Speech
False Cause
45. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Connotative Meaning
Inflections
Analogical Reasoning
Causal Reasoning
46. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Acceptance Speech
Red Herring
Inflections
Emergent Leader
47. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Key-word Outline
Red Herring
Message
Generic 'he'
48. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Positive nervousness
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Repetition
Quoting out of Context
49. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Attitude
Slippery Slope
Testimony
Bandwagon
50. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Hypothetical Example
Designated Leader
Median
Articulation