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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. Numerical data.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Statistics
Extemporaneous Speech
Monotone
2. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Expert Testimony
Causal Order
Median
Parallelism
3. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Causal Reasoning
Eye Contact
Commemorative Speech
Maintenance Needs
4. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Paraphrase
Spare Brain Time
Bibliography
Antithesis
5. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Critical Listening
Question of Policy
Spatial Order
Gestures
6. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Quoting out of Context
Adrenaline
Speech of Presentation
Reasoning from Specific Instances
7. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Signpost
Internal Preview
Adrenaline
Connotative Meaning
8. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Goodwill
Situation
Problem-Solution Order
Symposium
9. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Internal Summary
Internal Preview
Dyad
Denotative Meaning
10. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Pathos
After-Dinner Speech
Pronunciation
Procedural Needs
11. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Causal Reasoning
Inflections
Connotative Meaning
Message
12. An error in reasoning.
Interference
Evidence
Fallacy
Emergent Leader
13. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Extemporaneous Speech
Bandwagon
Articulation
Main Points
14. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Situational Audience Analysis
Bill of Rights
Small Group
Direct Quotation
15. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Bill of Rights
Connective
Oral Report
Appreciative Listening
16. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Maintenance Needs
Statistics
Creating Common Grounds
Procedural Needs
17. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Commemorative Speech
Causal Order
Kinesics
Visual Framework
18. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Interference
Alliteration
Connective
Pathos
19. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Frame of Reference
Name-calling
Situation
Appreciative Listening
20. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Pathos
Task Needs
Speech of Presentation
Procedural Needs
21. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Visualization
Derived Credibility
Oral Report
Denotative Meaning
22. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Bandwagon
Paraphrase
Bibliography
Fixed-Alternative Questions
23. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Egocentrism
Oral Report
Ethics
Peer Testimony
24. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Scale Questions
Central Idea
Peer Testimony
Simile
25. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Bill of Rights
Evidence
Connotative Meaning
Channel
26. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Scale Questions
Demographic Audience Analysis
Speech of Introduction
Message
27. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Frame of Reference
Plagiarism
Comprehensive Listening
Positive nervousness
28. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Interference
Rhetorical Question
Clutter
Concrete Words
29. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Bill of Rights
Terminal Credibility
Slippery Slope
Listener
30. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Topical Order
Situational Audience Analysis
Extemporaneous Speech
Alliteration
31. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Articulation
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Credibility
Spatial Order
32. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Main Points
Designated Leader
Median
Specific Purpose
33. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Reasoning from Principle
Critical Thinking
Name-calling
Fixed-Alternative Questions
34. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Chronological Order
Concrete Words
Rhetorical Question
35. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Maintenance Needs
Vocal Variety
Conversational Quality
Eye Contact
36. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Slippery Slope
Preview Statement
Identification
Concrete Words
37. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Analogical Reasoning
Central Idea
Attitude
Strategic Organization
38. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Emphatic Listening
Incremental Plagiarism
Stereo-typing
Ethics
39. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Topic
Panel Discussion
Speech of Introduction
Bibliography
40. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Internal Preview
After-Dinner Speech
Transition
Supporting Materials
41. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Transition
Derived Credibility
Criteria
Generic 'he'
42. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Preparation Outline
Rhetorical Question
Parallelism
Egocentrism
43. 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.'
Critical Thinking
Dissolve Ending
False Cause
Active Listening
44. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Comprehensive Listening
Listener
Rhythm
Pause
45. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Transition
Pitch
Procedural Needs
Emergent Leader
46. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Vocalized Pause
Pathos
Small Group
Consensus
47. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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48. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Impromptu Speech
Slippery Slope
Hypothetical Example
False Cause
49. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Example
Bill of Rights
Visual Framework
Pause
50. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Spare Brain Time
Evidence
Either-Or
Spatial Order
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