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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. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Positive nervousness
Global Plagiarism
Speech of Introduction
Procedural Needs
2. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Global Plagiarism
Demographic Audience Analysis
Gestures
3. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Panel Discussion
Scale Questions
Message
Red Herring
4. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Eye Contact
Fallacy
Clutter
Connotative Meaning
5. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Ethics
Plagiarism
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Listener
6. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Pathos
Procedural Needs
Preview Statement
7. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Credibility
Analogical Reasoning
Plagiarism
Signpost
8. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Visual Framework
Slippery Slope
Hearing
Terminal Credibility
9. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Incremental Plagiarism
Cliche
Alliteration
Clutter
10. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
After-Dinner Speech
Connective
Analogical Reasoning
Reflective-Thinking Method
11. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Speech of Presentation
Statistics
Designated Leader
Metaphor
12. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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13. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Message
Hasty Generalization
Simile
Parallelism
14. The means by which a message is communicated.
Speech of Introduction
Reasoning from Principle
Channel
Egocentrism
15. Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve a particular result with a particular audience.
Credibility
Nonverbal Communication
Strategic Organization
Implied Leader
16. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Monotone
Critical Listening
Transition
Implied Leader
17. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Inflections
Dyad
Causal Reasoning
Interference
18. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Speaker
Pathos
Logos
Stage Fright
19. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Volume
Manuscript Speech
Pause
Transition
20. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Initial Credibility
Chronological Order
Ethnocentrism
Example
21. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Open-Ended Questions
Problem Solving (small)
Channel
Internal Preview
22. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Articulation
Demographic Audience Analysis
Adrenaline
Ethical Decisions
23. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Evidence
Spatial Order
Extemporaneous Speech
Parallelism
24. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Generic 'he'
Visualization
Connective
Pause
25. The average value of a group of numbers.
Mean
Volume
Metaphor
Fallacy
26. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Causal Order
Bibliography
Pause
Main Points
27. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Open-Ended Questions
Patchwork Plagiarism
Logos
Monotone
28. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Speech of Presentation
Feedback
Interference
Delivery Cues
29. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Ethos
Conversational Quality
Impromptu Speech
Slippery Slope
30. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Open-Ended Questions
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Vocalized Pause
Maintenance Needs
31. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Listening
Credibility
Bandwagon
Commemorative Speech
32. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Critical Thinking
Crescendo Ending
Pitch
Feedback
33. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Listening
Alliteration
Spatial Order
Fallacy
34. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Dyad
Conversational Quality
Task Needs
Speaker
35. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Invalid Analogy
After-Dinner Speech
Listening
Dissolve Ending
36. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Egocentrism
Pause
Message
Hasty Generalization
37. A trite or over uesd expression.
Cliche
Derived Credibility
Stereo-typing
Logos
38. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Specific Purpose
Example
Key-word Outline
Hearing
39. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Question of Policy
Message
Attitude
Speaker
40. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Internal Preview
Chronological Order
Rhythm
Supporting Materials
41. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Active Listening
Residual Message
Credibility
Oral Report
42. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Criteria
Emergent Leader
Imagery
Vocal Variety
43. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Dialect
Strategic Organization
Visual Framework
Generic 'he'
44. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Abstract Words
Bandwagon
Either-Or
Rate
45. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Gestures
Connective
Delivery Cues
Implied Leader
46. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Main Points
Question of Policy
Spatial Order
47. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Imagery
Abstract Words
Internal Preview
Critical Thinking
48. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Supporting Materials
Symposium
Evidence
Consensus
49. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Generic 'he'
Pitch
Audience-Centeredness
Acceptance Speech
50. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Speaker
Reasoning from Principle
Quoting out of Context
Volume