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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. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Inflections
Paraphrase
Ethics
Impromptu Speech
2. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Kinesics
Peer Testimony
Reasoning from Principle
Problem Solving (small)
3. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Paraphrase
Creating Common Grounds
Parallelism
Brief Example
4. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Small Group
Rhythm
Audience-Centeredness
Patchwork Plagiarism
5. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Causal Order
Procedural Needs
Hearing
Metaphor
6. A group of two people.
Internal Preview
Question of Policy
Dyad
Preview Statement
7. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Paraphrase
Symposium
Repetition
Pathos
8. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Oral Report
Global Plagiarism
Alliteration
Vocalized Pause
9. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Pronunciation
Hearing
Speech of Introduction
Central Idea
10. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Nonverbal Communication
After-Dinner Speech
Scale Questions
Listening
11. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Visualization
Critical Listening
Ethics
Metaphor
12. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Global Plagiarism
Supporting Materials
Hidden Agenda
13. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Feedback
Chronological Order
Alliteration
14. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Incremental Plagiarism
Dyad
Invalid Analogy
Key-word Outline
15. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Rhetorical Question
Manuscript Speech
Clutter
16. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Preparation Outline
Criteria
Critical Listening
Key-word Outline
17. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Creating Common Grounds
Visualization
Demographic Audience Analysis
Problem-Solution Order
18. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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19. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Connotative Meaning
Kinesics
Implied Leader
Initial Credibility
20. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Credibility
Metaphor
Peer Testimony
Problem-Solution Order
21. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Statistics
Paraphrase
Ad Hominem
Message
22. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Kinesics
Abstract Words
Egocentrism
Positive nervousness
23. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Median
Patchwork Plagiarism
Gestures
Residual Message
24. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Listener
Implied Leader
Dissolve Ending
Ethics
25. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Hidden Agenda
Feedback
Central Idea
Internal Preview
26. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Median
Spare Brain Time
Parallelism
Internal Summary
27. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Initial Credibility
Supporting Materials
Residual Message
Reflective-Thinking Method
28. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Critical Listening
Causal Order
Problem Solving (small)
Credibility
29. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Metaphor
Plagiarism
Testimony
Either-Or
30. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Bibliography
Creating Common Grounds
Emphatic Listening
Reasoning
31. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Metaphor
Inflections
Denotative Meaning
Visualization
32. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Paraphrase
Key-word Outline
Connective
33. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Small Group
Bibliography
Open-Ended Questions
Manuscript Speech
34. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Hearing
Question of Policy
Concrete Words
Rhetorical Question
35. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Impromptu Speech
Ethical Decisions
Creating Common Grounds
Hearing
36. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Listener
Main Points
Name-calling
Testimony
37. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Ethical Decisions
Spare Brain Time
Vocalized Pause
Critical Listening
38. A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.
Ethnocentrism
Topical Order
Bill of Rights
Attitude
39. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Vocal Variety
Ethnocentrism
Preview Statement
Initial Credibility
40. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Impromptu Speech
Stereo-typing
Delivery Cues
After-Dinner Speech
41. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Bandwagon
Chronological Order
Terminal Credibility
Bill of Rights
42. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Key-word Outline
Message
Hypothetical Example
Feedback
43. Numerical data.
Internal Summary
Ethics
Ad Hominem
Statistics
44. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Ethics
Specific Purpose
Commemorative Speech
Adrenaline
45. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Task Needs
Open-Ended Questions
Interference
Pitch
46. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Specific Purpose
Statistics
Kinesics
Pronunciation
47. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Preview Statement
Articulation
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Comprehensive Listening
48. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Bandwagon
Antithesis
Derived Credibility
Hearing
49. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Critical Listening
Clutter
Expert Testimony
Supporting Materials
50. The subject of a speech.
Simile
Commemorative Speech
Topic
False Cause