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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Visual Framework
Preview Statement
Pause
Manuscript Speech
2. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Paraphrase
Situational Audience Analysis
Interference
Internal Preview
3. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Connective
Key-word Outline
Eye Contact
Logos
4. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Listener
Global Plagiarism
Imagery
Preparation Outline
5. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Designated Leader
Terminal Credibility
Connective
Procedural Needs
6. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Cliche
Stereo-typing
Repetition
Appreciative Listening
7. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Volume
Cliche
Credibility
Consensus
8. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Listener
Commemorative Speech
Scale Questions
Example
9. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Speech of Presentation
Leadership
Paraphrase
Task Needs
10. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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11. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Ad Hominem
Credibility
Problem Solving (small)
Emphatic Listening
12. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Residual Message
Kinesics
Audience-Centeredness
Central Idea
13. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Crescendo Ending
Preview Statement
Evidence
Main Points
14. 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.'
Adrenaline
Generic 'he'
False Cause
Problem Solving (small)
15. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Dissolve Ending
Speaker
Visual Framework
Situation
16. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Emphatic Listening
Speaking Outline
Either-Or
Speaker
17. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Bill of Rights
Chronological Order
Clutter
18. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Monotone
Critical Thinking
Audience-Centeredness
Global Plagiarism
19. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Testimony
Emphatic Listening
Paraphrase
Channel
20. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Internal Summary
Attitude
Symposium
Vocal Variety
21. A trite or over uesd expression.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Monotone
Abstract Words
Cliche
22. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Criteria
Pitch
Causal Order
Antithesis
23. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Dissolve Ending
Appreciative Listening
Reasoning
Delivery Cues
24. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Clutter
Reasoning from Principle
Emphatic Listening
Logos
25. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Articulation
Pause
Signpost
Comprehensive Listening
26. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Terminal Credibility
Example
Metaphor
Causal Order
27. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Hidden Agenda
Global Plagiarism
Spare Brain Time
Implied Leader
28. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Abstract Words
Either-Or
Inflections
Symposium
29. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Brief Example
Dissolve Ending
Residual Message
Mean
30. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Antithesis
Name-calling
Key-word Outline
Central Idea
31. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Main Points
Listening
Initial Credibility
Reasoning
32. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Panel Discussion
Emphatic Listening
Brief Example
Example
33. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Visualization
Name-calling
Initial Credibility
34. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Commemorative Speech
Global Plagiarism
Internal Summary
Pronunciation
35. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Visualization
Patchwork Plagiarism
Gestures
Transition
36. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Example
Dissolve Ending
Chronological Order
Attitude
37. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Question of Policy
Analogical Reasoning
Listening
Acceptance Speech
38. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Expert Testimony
Direct Quotation
Eye Contact
Situational Audience Analysis
39. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Antithesis
Demographic Audience Analysis
Median
Positive nervousness
40. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Topical Order
Reflective-Thinking Method
Visualization
Internal Preview
41. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Situational Audience Analysis
Egocentrism
Paraphrase
Frame of Reference
42. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Designated Leader
Statistics
Credibility
Situation
43. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Speech of Presentation
Metaphor
Critical Thinking
Comprehensive Listening
44. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Hasty Generalization
Invalid Analogy
Main Points
Volume
45. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Situation
Ethos
Connotative Meaning
Creating Common Grounds
46. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Main Points
Abstract Words
Attitude
Comprehensive Listening
47. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Commemorative Speech
Speech of Presentation
Comprehensive Listening
Ethos
48. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Identification
Creating Common Grounds
Expert Testimony
Hearing
49. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Ad Hominem
Causal Order
Rhetorical Question
Vocalized Pause
50. The average value of a group of numbers.
Mean
Situational Audience Analysis
Problem-Solution Order
After-Dinner Speech