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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 fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Plagiarism
Credibility
Slippery Slope
Fallacy
2. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Speech of Introduction
Repetition
Ethnocentrism
Bibliography
3. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Global Plagiarism
Message
Alliteration
Conversational Quality
4. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Creating Common Grounds
Specific Purpose
Either-Or
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.
Audience-Centeredness
Analogical Reasoning
Symposium
Hidden Agenda
6. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Pathos
Impromptu Speech
Connotative Meaning
Open-Ended Questions
7. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Speaker
Criteria
Pathos
Consensus
8. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Criteria
Emphatic Listening
Abstract Words
Listener
9. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Median
Panel Discussion
Bibliography
Delivery Cues
10. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Cliche
Credibility
Central Idea
Residual Message
11. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Rhetorical Question
False Cause
Conversational Quality
Main Points
12. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Pause
Causal Order
Procedural Needs
Comprehensive Listening
13. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Speaking Outline
Transition
Oral Report
Rate
14. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Task Needs
Pause
Stereo-typing
Median
15. The speed at which a person speaks.
Inflections
Visualization
Rate
Manuscript Speech
16. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Cliche
Question of Policy
Active Listening
Scale Questions
17. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
False Cause
Quoting out of Context
Adrenaline
Listener
18. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Goodwill
Internal Preview
Residual Message
Incremental Plagiarism
19. The means by which a message is communicated.
Channel
Implied Leader
Global Plagiarism
Identification
20. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Articulation
Inflections
Rhythm
Bibliography
21. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Specific Purpose
Dialect
Abstract Words
Pronunciation
22. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Generic 'he'
Incremental Plagiarism
Speaker
Internal Summary
23. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Designated Leader
Hypothetical Example
Identification
Slippery Slope
24. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Symposium
Imagery
Listening
Active Listening
25. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Commemorative Speech
Adrenaline
Brief Example
Spare Brain Time
26. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Abstract Words
Reasoning from Specific Instances
After-Dinner Speech
Reasoning from Principle
27. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Problem Solving (small)
Designated Leader
Preparation Outline
Open-Ended Questions
28. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Speaking Outline
Terminal Credibility
Example
Speech of Presentation
29. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Manuscript Speech
Extemporaneous Speech
Ethics
Hearing
30. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Residual Message
Topical Order
Key-word Outline
Attitude
31. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Leadership
Testimony
Pitch
Ad Hominem
32. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Main Points
Bandwagon
Expert Testimony
33. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Inflections
Visual Framework
Commemorative Speech
Ad Hominem
34. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Emphatic Listening
Hearing
Repetition
Spare Brain Time
35. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Quoting out of Context
Rate
Emphatic Listening
36. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Leadership
Preview Statement
Scale Questions
Ethos
37. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Central Idea
Delivery Cues
Repetition
Panel Discussion
38. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Central Idea
Connotative Meaning
Plagiarism
Reasoning
39. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Panel Discussion
Derived Credibility
Reasoning from Specific Instances
40. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Attitude
Audience-Centeredness
Terminal Credibility
Comprehensive Listening
41. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Connotative Meaning
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Vocal Variety
Frame of Reference
42. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Spatial Order
Topical Order
Direct Quotation
Hidden Agenda
43. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Comprehensive Listening
Concrete Words
Invalid Analogy
Implied Leader
44. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Transition
Key-word Outline
Speech of Introduction
Name-calling
45. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Positive nervousness
Vocal Variety
Interference
Simile
46. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Visualization
Volume
Channel
Name-calling
47. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Abstract Words
Expert Testimony
Positive nervousness
Commemorative Speech
48. A group of two people.
Brief Example
Clutter
Dyad
Credibility
49. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Creating Common Grounds
Key-word Outline
Plagiarism
Reflective-Thinking Method
50. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Emergent Leader
Oral Report
Parallelism
Brief Example