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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. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Oral Report
Antithesis
Bibliography
Manuscript Speech
2. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Identification
Designated Leader
Paraphrase
Frame of Reference
3. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Main Points
Transition
Logos
Volume
4. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Identification
Listening
Question of Policy
Emergent Leader
5. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Internal Preview
Preparation Outline
Situational Audience Analysis
Imagery
6. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Example
Reasoning from Principle
Key-word Outline
Dissolve Ending
7. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Hearing
Bibliography
Gestures
Specific Purpose
8. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Commemorative Speech
Metaphor
Attitude
Situation
9. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Name-calling
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Rhetorical Question
Bibliography
10. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Listening
Audience-Centeredness
Demographic Audience Analysis
Terminal Credibility
11. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Kinesics
Crescendo Ending
Testimony
Ad Hominem
12. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Fallacy
Chronological Order
Signpost
Peer Testimony
13. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Initial Credibility
Pause
Small Group
Analogical Reasoning
14. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Evidence
Pause
Plagiarism
Articulation
15. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Articulation
Question of Policy
Manuscript Speech
Signpost
16. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Articulation
Spare Brain Time
Ethnocentrism
Consensus
17. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Clutter
Kinesics
Terminal Credibility
Open-Ended Questions
18. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Oral Report
Vocal Variety
Dissolve Ending
Pitch
19. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Abstract Words
Initial Credibility
Visualization
Visual Framework
20. Numerical data.
Volume
Question of Policy
After-Dinner Speech
Statistics
21. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Maintenance Needs
Speaker
Speech of Introduction
Task Needs
22. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Speech of Presentation
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Volume
Hasty Generalization
23. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Pronunciation
Question of Policy
Procedural Needs
Gestures
24. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Hidden Agenda
Hypothetical Example
Vocalized Pause
Example
25. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Attitude
Cliche
Connective
Hearing
26. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Bandwagon
Comprehensive Listening
Feedback
Appreciative Listening
27. An error in reasoning.
Fallacy
Incremental Plagiarism
After-Dinner Speech
Initial Credibility
28. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Logos
Eye Contact
Paraphrase
Residual Message
29. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Repetition
Antithesis
Concrete Words
Internal Preview
30. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Hidden Agenda
Maintenance Needs
Spare Brain Time
Median
31. The subject of a speech.
Pause
Topic
Logos
False Cause
32. The average value of a group of numbers.
Speech of Presentation
Channel
Mean
Invalid Analogy
33. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Spare Brain Time
Repetition
Example
Connotative Meaning
34. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Consensus
Comprehensive Listening
Residual Message
Speaker
35. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Attitude
Goodwill
Example
Critical Listening
36. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Pronunciation
Speech of Presentation
Eye Contact
37. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Volume
Testimony
Active Listening
Visualization
38. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Channel
Rate
Stereo-typing
Extemporaneous Speech
39. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Listener
Bill of Rights
Paraphrase
Dissolve Ending
40. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Residual Message
Monotone
Paraphrase
Testimony
41. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Main Points
Frame of Reference
Red Herring
Spatial Order
42. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Chronological Order
Emphatic Listening
Speech of Presentation
Acceptance Speech
43. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Listening
Slippery Slope
Red Herring
Kinesics
44. 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.
Conversational Quality
Attitude
Procedural Needs
Analogical Reasoning
45. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Creating Common Grounds
Interference
Comprehensive Listening
Listener
46. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Feedback
Dialect
Median
Ethnocentrism
47. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Crescendo Ending
Maintenance Needs
Metaphor
Cliche
48. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Situational Audience Analysis
Designated Leader
Causal Reasoning
Analogical Reasoning
49. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Question of Policy
Hasty Generalization
Problem Solving (small)
Red Herring
50. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Maintenance Needs
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Chronological Order
Hasty Generalization