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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. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Delivery Cues
Incremental Plagiarism
Ethics
Direct Quotation
2. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Either-Or
Main Points
Stage Fright
Conversational Quality
3. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Interference
Frame of Reference
Ethnocentrism
Criteria
4. The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
Ethics
Demographic Audience Analysis
Small Group
Repetition
5. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Dissolve Ending
Connective
Strategic Organization
Specific Purpose
6. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Situational Audience Analysis
Creating Common Grounds
Quoting out of Context
Cliche
7. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Peer Testimony
Pause
Emphatic Listening
Ethical Decisions
8. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Plagiarism
Causal Reasoning
Speaker
Delivery Cues
9. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Identification
Signpost
Maintenance Needs
Mean
10. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Reasoning from Principle
Appreciative Listening
Generic 'he'
Rhetorical Question
11. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Topic
Central Idea
Internal Summary
Concrete Words
12. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Gestures
Task Needs
Pronunciation
Ethical Decisions
13. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Parallelism
Analogical Reasoning
Reflective-Thinking Method
14. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Evidence
Attitude
Pronunciation
Red Herring
15. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Chronological Order
Causal Reasoning
Credibility
Bill of Rights
16. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Small Group
Message
Implied Leader
Logos
17. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Maintenance Needs
Symposium
Connotative Meaning
Emphatic Listening
18. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Visualization
Stereo-typing
Audience-Centeredness
Hasty Generalization
19. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Red Herring
Plagiarism
Positive nervousness
Conversational Quality
20. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Global Plagiarism
Either-Or
Feedback
Analogical Reasoning
21. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Problem-Solution Order
Key-word Outline
Goodwill
22. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Evidence
Rhetorical Question
Eye Contact
23. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Critical Listening
Pathos
Metaphor
Plagiarism
24. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Spare Brain Time
Invalid Analogy
Appreciative Listening
Attitude
25. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Kinesics
Credibility
Open-Ended Questions
Spatial Order
26. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Evidence
Logos
Dissolve Ending
Concrete Words
27. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Evidence
Hasty Generalization
Expert Testimony
Delivery Cues
28. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Incremental Plagiarism
Spare Brain Time
Internal Summary
Global Plagiarism
29. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Creating Common Grounds
Question of Policy
Paraphrase
Red Herring
30. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Visual Framework
Comprehensive Listening
Identification
Symposium
31. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Median
Either-Or
Metaphor
Visualization
32. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Implied Leader
Topical Order
Preparation Outline
Designated Leader
33. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Symposium
Pitch
Commemorative Speech
Identification
34. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Dissolve Ending
Rhythm
Causal Order
Incremental Plagiarism
35. The speed at which a person speaks.
Evidence
Rate
Small Group
Testimony
36. Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve a particular result with a particular audience.
Strategic Organization
Metaphor
Name-calling
Chronological Order
37. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Dialect
Denotative Meaning
Preview Statement
Vocalized Pause
38. A method of speech organization in which the first main point deals with the existence of a problem and the second main point presents the solution to the problem.
Task Needs
Specific Purpose
Signpost
Problem-Solution Order
39. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Main Points
Either-Or
Rhetorical Question
Feedback
40. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Stereo-typing
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Visualization
41. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Feedback
Dissolve Ending
Emphatic Listening
Spatial Order
42. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Repetition
Reasoning
Ethical Decisions
Visualization
43. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Alliteration
Global Plagiarism
Demographic Audience Analysis
Ethnocentrism
44. Words that refer to tangible objects.
Concrete Words
Kinesics
Visual Framework
Connective
45. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Transition
Speaker
Acceptance Speech
Brief Example
46. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Hypothetical Example
Demographic Audience Analysis
Procedural Needs
Global Plagiarism
47. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Bibliography
Situation
Initial Credibility
Mean
48. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Speech of Introduction
Procedural Needs
Pitch
Task Needs
49. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Dyad
Scale Questions
Repetition
Kinesics
50. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Gestures
Stereo-typing
Dissolve Ending
Parallelism