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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. The speed at which a person speaks.
Volume
Key-word Outline
Rate
Analogical Reasoning
2. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Preparation Outline
Interference
Metaphor
Oral Report
3. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Mean
Topic
Topical Order
Chronological Order
4. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Alliteration
Audience-Centeredness
Consensus
Visual Framework
5. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Ethical Decisions
Open-Ended Questions
Volume
Ethnocentrism
6. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Procedural Needs
Vocal Variety
Maintenance Needs
Attitude
7. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Impromptu Speech
Adrenaline
Symposium
Causal Reasoning
8. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Cliche
Pathos
Appreciative Listening
Pronunciation
9. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Pitch
Slippery Slope
Terminal Credibility
Positive nervousness
10. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Designated Leader
Median
Main Points
Imagery
11. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Appreciative Listening
Plagiarism
Pause
Listening
12. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Key-word Outline
Demographic Audience Analysis
Pitch
Audience-Centeredness
13. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Antithesis
Small Group
Conversational Quality
Vocal Variety
14. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Impromptu Speech
Reasoning from Principle
Delivery Cues
Direct Quotation
15. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Supporting Materials
Implied Leader
Task Needs
Commemorative Speech
16. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Implied Leader
Credibility
Paraphrase
Eye Contact
17. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Active Listening
Scale Questions
Global Plagiarism
Logos
18. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Comprehensive Listening
Slippery Slope
Situation
Critical Thinking
19. 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.
Analogical Reasoning
Simile
Evidence
Problem-Solution Order
20. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Paraphrase
Problem-Solution Order
Egocentrism
Listening
21. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
Either-Or
Pitch
After-Dinner Speech
Preparation Outline
22. A trite or over uesd expression.
Paraphrase
Mean
Cliche
Hearing
23. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Credibility
Situation
Denotative Meaning
Central Idea
24. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Speech of Introduction
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Strategic Organization
Situation
25. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Visual Framework
Reasoning
Evidence
Commemorative Speech
26. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Paraphrase
Volume
Active Listening
Alliteration
27. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Connective
Internal Preview
Mean
Open-Ended Questions
28. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Ethical Decisions
Direct Quotation
Speaker
Commemorative Speech
29. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Concrete Words
Parallelism
Median
Interference
30. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Supporting Materials
Terminal Credibility
Critical Thinking
Topic
31. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Feedback
Invalid Analogy
Stereo-typing
Hearing
32. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Volume
Rate
Credibility
Logos
33. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Terminal Credibility
Initial Credibility
Hypothetical Example
Creating Common Grounds
34. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Maintenance Needs
Acceptance Speech
Paraphrase
Denotative Meaning
35. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Peer Testimony
Spatial Order
Internal Summary
36. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Manuscript Speech
Maintenance Needs
Reasoning from Principle
Testimony
37. The average value of a group of numbers.
Speech of Presentation
Problem Solving (small)
Transition
Mean
38. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Cliche
Brief Example
Manuscript Speech
Stage Fright
39. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Adrenaline
Problem Solving (small)
Reflective-Thinking Method
Emphatic Listening
40. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Criteria
Interference
Hasty Generalization
Implied Leader
41. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Implied Leader
Feedback
Invalid Analogy
Symposium
42. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Comprehensive Listening
Active Listening
Brief Example
Dialect
43. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Initial Credibility
Situational Audience Analysis
Invalid Analogy
Dialect
44. An error in reasoning.
Positive nervousness
Consensus
Fallacy
Speech of Presentation
45. 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.
Analogical Reasoning
Listening
Ethical Decisions
Implied Leader
46. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Gestures
Visual Framework
Pitch
Internal Preview
47. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Derived Credibility
Frame of Reference
Audience-Centeredness
Question of Policy
48. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Speaker
Invalid Analogy
Slippery Slope
Delivery Cues
49. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Key-word Outline
Identification
Incremental Plagiarism
Rhetorical Question
50. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Stereo-typing
Question of Policy
Ethnocentrism
Denotative Meaning
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