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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.
Median
Symposium
Vocal Variety
Hearing
2. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Situation
Interference
Symposium
Reasoning from Specific Instances
3. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Articulation
Credibility
Patchwork Plagiarism
Spatial Order
4. A trite or over uesd expression.
Critical Listening
Implied Leader
Paraphrase
Cliche
5. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Visualization
Invalid Analogy
Derived Credibility
6. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Criteria
Hearing
Designated Leader
7. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Pronunciation
Extemporaneous Speech
Procedural Needs
Listener
8. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Ethos
Internal Preview
Alliteration
Implied Leader
9. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Ad Hominem
Vocalized Pause
Paraphrase
Spare Brain Time
10. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Global Plagiarism
Dyad
Chronological Order
Median
11. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Nonverbal Communication
Ethical Decisions
Hypothetical Example
Rate
12. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Critical Thinking
Channel
Feedback
Impromptu Speech
13. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Adrenaline
Repetition
Consensus
Expert Testimony
14. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Fallacy
Hasty Generalization
Ethical Decisions
Clutter
15. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Parallelism
Eye Contact
Spatial Order
Incremental Plagiarism
16. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Hypothetical Example
Main Points
Reflective-Thinking Method
Vocalized Pause
17. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Emphatic Listening
Brief Example
Manuscript Speech
Problem Solving (small)
18. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Comprehensive Listening
Oral Report
Concrete Words
Adrenaline
19. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotative Meaning
Dyad
Median
Pause
20. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Imagery
Metaphor
Initial Credibility
Preview Statement
21. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Mean
Signpost
Egocentrism
Pause
22. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Scale Questions
Reasoning from Principle
Implied Leader
Ethnocentrism
23. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Feedback
Positive nervousness
Invalid Analogy
Topical Order
24. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Initial Credibility
Monotone
Listener
Gestures
25. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Monotone
Comprehensive Listening
Gestures
Question of Policy
26. 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.
Peer Testimony
Topic
Frame of Reference
Situational Audience Analysis
27. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Topical Order
Situational Audience Analysis
Speech of Presentation
Causal Order
28. An error in reasoning.
Red Herring
Bibliography
Global Plagiarism
Fallacy
29. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Median
Critical Thinking
Credibility
30. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Goodwill
Maintenance Needs
Listener
Problem-Solution Order
31. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Spatial Order
Crescendo Ending
Acceptance Speech
32. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Pause
Reasoning
Hidden Agenda
Slippery Slope
33. A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.
Preview Statement
Topical Order
Internal Preview
Hypothetical Example
34. 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.'
False Cause
Global Plagiarism
Antithesis
Inflections
35. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Name-calling
Paraphrase
Main Points
Example
36. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Ethical Decisions
Consensus
Dialect
Transition
37. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Evidence
Reasoning from Principle
Emphatic Listening
Simile
38. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Preview Statement
Global Plagiarism
Slippery Slope
Attitude
39. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Strategic Organization
Pause
Key-word Outline
40. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Name-calling
Kinesics
Stage Fright
Implied Leader
41. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Brief Example
Visualization
Parallelism
Delivery Cues
42. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Terminal Credibility
Adrenaline
Open-Ended Questions
False Cause
43. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Criteria
Transition
Delivery Cues
Rhetorical Question
44. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Spare Brain Time
Channel
Imagery
Paraphrase
45. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Criteria
Connotative Meaning
Cliche
Testimony
46. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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47. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Conversational Quality
Spare Brain Time
Reasoning
Kinesics
48. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Hidden Agenda
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Chronological Order
Commemorative Speech
49. 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.
Articulation
Problem-Solution Order
Causal Reasoning
Slippery Slope
50. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Situation
Median
Plagiarism
Interference