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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. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Connective
Vocal Variety
Spatial Order
Pathos
2. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Volume
Stage Fright
Speaker
Preparation Outline
3. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Plagiarism
Task Needs
Implied Leader
Preview Statement
4. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Articulation
Strategic Organization
Emergent Leader
Bibliography
5. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Ethnocentrism
Articulation
Antithesis
Fallacy
6. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Impromptu Speech
Message
Stage Fright
Hypothetical Example
7. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Paraphrase
Strategic Organization
Reflective-Thinking Method
Plagiarism
8. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Alliteration
Situation
Terminal Credibility
Scale Questions
9. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Reflective-Thinking Method
False Cause
Bandwagon
Preview Statement
10. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Imagery
Hidden Agenda
Delivery Cues
Antithesis
11. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Reasoning from Principle
Speech of Presentation
Hearing
Metaphor
12. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Paraphrase
Inflections
Egocentrism
Antithesis
13. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Direct Quotation
Maintenance Needs
Positive nervousness
Residual Message
14. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Creating Common Grounds
Ethnocentrism
Key-word Outline
Speaking Outline
15. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Comprehensive Listening
Emergent Leader
Situation
Visual Framework
16. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Specific Purpose
Identification
Direct Quotation
Bandwagon
17. A group of two people.
Clutter
Symposium
Initial Credibility
Dyad
18. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Derived Credibility
Manuscript Speech
Visualization
Denotative Meaning
19. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Consensus
Visual Framework
Nonverbal Communication
Implied Leader
20. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Internal Summary
Clutter
Pitch
Creating Common Grounds
21. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Active Listening
Spatial Order
Incremental Plagiarism
Logos
22. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Ethical Decisions
Central Idea
Commemorative Speech
23. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Oral Report
Preview Statement
Preparation Outline
Repetition
24. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Consensus
Hidden Agenda
Symposium
Interference
25. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Channel
Transition
Evidence
Critical Thinking
26. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Eye Contact
Preparation Outline
Positive nervousness
Bibliography
27. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Either-Or
Egocentrism
Dialect
Positive nervousness
28. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Impromptu Speech
Rhetorical Question
Oral Report
Rhythm
29. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Alliteration
Rhythm
Identification
False Cause
30. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Concrete Words
Logos
Question of Policy
Extemporaneous Speech
31. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Listener
Topical Order
Implied Leader
Credibility
32. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Identification
Ethical Decisions
Procedural Needs
Critical Listening
33. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Central Idea
Specific Purpose
Panel Discussion
Slippery Slope
34. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Pitch
Brief Example
Connotative Meaning
Direct Quotation
35. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Imagery
Patchwork Plagiarism
Specific Purpose
Initial Credibility
36. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Logos
Preview Statement
Causal Order
Either-Or
37. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Oral Report
Hypothetical Example
Logos
Speaker
38. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Monotone
Commemorative Speech
Bandwagon
Bill of Rights
39. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Median
Ethos
Name-calling
Active Listening
40. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Example
Transition
Peer Testimony
Credibility
41. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Positive nervousness
Speaking Outline
Frame of Reference
Maintenance Needs
42. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Question of Policy
Internal Preview
Creating Common Grounds
False Cause
43. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Reasoning
Generic 'he'
Bandwagon
Identification
44. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Global Plagiarism
Demographic Audience Analysis
Channel
Imagery
45. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Median
Question of Policy
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Direct Quotation
46. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Dyad
Emphatic Listening
Preview Statement
47. A trite or over uesd expression.
Panel Discussion
Cliche
Residual Message
Denotative Meaning
48. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Example
Vocal Variety
Task Needs
Simile
49. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethos
Global Plagiarism
Red Herring
Creating Common Grounds
50. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Eye Contact
Interference
Critical Thinking
Causal Reasoning