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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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1. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Listener
Stage Fright
Procedural Needs
Comprehensive Listening
2. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Dissolve Ending
Problem Solving (small)
Monotone
Direct Quotation
3. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Median
Situational Audience Analysis
Supporting Materials
Ethos
4. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Terminal Credibility
Designated Leader
Credibility
Denotative Meaning
5. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Connotative Meaning
Vocalized Pause
Monotone
Identification
6. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Speaker
Clutter
Goodwill
Signpost
7. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Testimony
Expert Testimony
Vocal Variety
Pathos
8. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
Name-calling
Causal Order
After-Dinner Speech
Supporting Materials
9. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Feedback
Pronunciation
Simile
Demographic Audience Analysis
10. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Reasoning from Principle
Eye Contact
Spare Brain Time
Frame of Reference
11. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Attitude
Key-word Outline
Ethos
Internal Preview
12. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Comprehensive Listening
Leadership
Critical Thinking
Metaphor
13. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Internal Summary
Fallacy
Impromptu Speech
Scale Questions
14. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Reasoning from Principle
Speaker
Delivery Cues
Emphatic Listening
15. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Rhetorical Question
Acceptance Speech
Panel Discussion
Name-calling
16. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Commemorative Speech
Interference
Crescendo Ending
17. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Transition
Pause
False Cause
Fixed-Alternative Questions
18. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Adrenaline
Statistics
Residual Message
Hasty Generalization
19. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
False Cause
Commemorative Speech
Identification
Global Plagiarism
20. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Critical Listening
Patchwork Plagiarism
Emphatic Listening
Goodwill
21. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Testimony
Emergent Leader
Topic
Frame of Reference
22. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Dialect
Plagiarism
Example
Either-Or
23. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Derived Credibility
Ethics
After-Dinner Speech
Situational Audience Analysis
24. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Spatial Order
Criteria
Identification
25. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Message
Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Pitch
26. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Abstract Words
Internal Summary
Goodwill
Testimony
27. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Oral Report
Demographic Audience Analysis
Brief Example
Implied Leader
28. The means by which a message is communicated.
Pitch
Credibility
Channel
Criteria
29. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Rate
Either-Or
Paraphrase
Derived Credibility
30. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Pronunciation
Reasoning from Principle
Peer Testimony
Conversational Quality
31. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Metaphor
Listening
Either-Or
Oral Report
32. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Articulation
Invalid Analogy
Feedback
Topic
33. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Global Plagiarism
Connective
Feedback
34. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Criteria
Small Group
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Logos
35. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Vocal Variety
Paraphrase
Imagery
Articulation
36. The average value of a group of numbers.
Internal Preview
Mean
Critical Listening
Credibility
37. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Hypothetical Example
Ad Hominem
Parallelism
Situational Audience Analysis
38. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Mean
Task Needs
Plagiarism
Spare Brain Time
39. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Ethical Decisions
Paraphrase
Emphatic Listening
Alliteration
40. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Reasoning from Principle
Dissolve Ending
After-Dinner Speech
Inflections
41. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Bill of Rights
Causal Order
Denotative Meaning
Pronunciation
42. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Testimony
Monotone
Credibility
Speech of Presentation
43. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Internal Summary
Dissolve Ending
Attitude
Crescendo Ending
44. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Critical Listening
Delivery Cues
Central Idea
Red Herring
45. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Antithesis
Incremental Plagiarism
Residual Message
After-Dinner Speech
46. 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.
Situational Audience Analysis
Adrenaline
Emphatic Listening
Internal Summary
47. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Consensus
Identification
Task Needs
Implied Leader
48. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Symposium
Designated Leader
Situational Audience Analysis
Hidden Agenda
49. 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 Listening
Critical Thinking
Name-calling
False Cause
50. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Comprehensive Listening
Red Herring
Reflective-Thinking Method
Speech of Presentation
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