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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. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Appreciative Listening
Interference
Acceptance Speech
Eye Contact
2. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Direct Quotation
Terminal Credibility
Scale Questions
Hypothetical Example
3. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Stereo-typing
Credibility
Invalid Analogy
Internal Preview
4. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Evidence
Ethical Decisions
Central Idea
Reflective-Thinking Method
5. 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.
Impromptu Speech
Ethics
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Analogical Reasoning
6. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Connective
Repetition
Hypothetical Example
Credibility
7. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Reasoning from Principle
Active Listening
Speech of Presentation
Cliche
8. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Hypothetical Example
Critical Listening
Attitude
Inflections
9. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Connective
Eye Contact
Direct Quotation
Audience-Centeredness
10. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Appreciative Listening
Listening
Global Plagiarism
Red Herring
11. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Volume
Emergent Leader
Quoting out of Context
Denotative Meaning
12. The subject of a speech.
Reasoning from Principle
Internal Preview
Analogical Reasoning
Topic
13. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Dialect
Internal Preview
Credibility
Plagiarism
14. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Paraphrase
Small Group
Volume
Critical Thinking
15. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Hidden Agenda
Stereo-typing
Metaphor
Ethical Decisions
16. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Scale Questions
Positive nervousness
Ethics
Transition
17. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Inflections
Leadership
Evidence
Dyad
18. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Consensus
Question of Policy
Eye Contact
Acceptance Speech
19. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Global Plagiarism
Concrete Words
Clutter
Rhetorical Question
20. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Impromptu Speech
Question of Policy
Speech of Introduction
Symposium
21. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Internal Preview
Bandwagon
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Chronological Order
22. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Open-Ended Questions
Reasoning
Rhythm
Visual Framework
23. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Goodwill
Critical Thinking
Patchwork Plagiarism
24. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Question of Policy
Patchwork Plagiarism
Reasoning from Principle
Active Listening
25. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Dialect
Consensus
Alliteration
Stage Fright
26. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Key-word Outline
Emphatic Listening
Topical Order
Connotative Meaning
27. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Visual Framework
Commemorative Speech
Inflections
Spatial Order
28. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Monotone
Strategic Organization
Creating Common Grounds
Spatial Order
29. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Internal Preview
Either-Or
Clutter
Topical Order
30. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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31. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Topic
Strategic Organization
Task Needs
Generic 'he'
32. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Articulation
Testimony
Credibility
Frame of Reference
33. The means by which a message is communicated.
Channel
Pathos
Stereo-typing
Topic
34. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Acceptance Speech
Audience-Centeredness
Residual Message
Signpost
35. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Extemporaneous Speech
Main Points
Antithesis
Cliche
36. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Volume
Repetition
Vocalized Pause
Invalid Analogy
37. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Goodwill
Generic 'he'
False Cause
Inflections
38. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Transition
Incremental Plagiarism
Vocalized Pause
Creating Common Grounds
39. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Slippery Slope
Adrenaline
Connective
Initial Credibility
40. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Red Herring
Causal Reasoning
Egocentrism
Designated Leader
41. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Analogical Reasoning
Ethos
Critical Thinking
Emergent Leader
42. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Plagiarism
Evidence
Implied Leader
Testimony
43. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Pause
Metaphor
Incremental Plagiarism
Chronological Order
44. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Emergent Leader
Bill of Rights
Speaking Outline
Oral Report
45. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Analogical Reasoning
Vocalized Pause
Procedural Needs
Positive nervousness
46. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Vocal Variety
Interference
Rhythm
47. 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.'
Connotative Meaning
Listening
False Cause
Invalid Analogy
48. A trite or over uesd expression.
Direct Quotation
Monotone
Goodwill
Cliche
49. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Hypothetical Example
Simile
Active Listening
Antithesis
50. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Articulation
Ethos
Bill of Rights
Preview Statement