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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. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Fright
Emergent Leader
Bill of Rights
Message
2. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Spatial Order
Symposium
Message
Residual Message
3. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Active Listening
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Nonverbal Communication
Reasoning from Specific Instances
4. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Inflections
Volume
Open-Ended Questions
Pitch
5. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Appreciative Listening
Adrenaline
Dissolve Ending
Testimony
6. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Direct Quotation
Plagiarism
Vocalized Pause
Credibility
7. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Small Group
After-Dinner Speech
Task Needs
Signpost
8. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Dyad
Evidence
Cliche
Vocal Variety
9. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Speech of Presentation
Maintenance Needs
Ethical Decisions
Bill of Rights
10. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
Feedback
Comprehensive Listening
Reasoning from Principle
Vocalized Pause
11. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Denotative Meaning
Commemorative Speech
Parallelism
Chronological Order
12. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Quoting out of Context
Commemorative Speech
Nonverbal Communication
Visual Framework
13. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Signpost
Impromptu Speech
Antithesis
Chronological Order
14. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Critical Listening
Supporting Materials
Hypothetical Example
Global Plagiarism
15. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Topical Order
Small Group
Clutter
Impromptu Speech
16. The subject of a speech.
Slippery Slope
Topic
Problem-Solution Order
Median
17. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Topical Order
Articulation
Procedural Needs
Critical Listening
18. 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.'
False Cause
Specific Purpose
Spatial Order
Topic
19. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Conversational Quality
Critical Listening
Situational Audience Analysis
Hypothetical Example
20. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Credibility
Residual Message
Direct Quotation
Alliteration
21. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Stage Fright
Attitude
Hidden Agenda
Hearing
22. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Stereo-typing
Delivery Cues
Simile
Manuscript Speech
23. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Speaking Outline
Creating Common Grounds
Internal Summary
Rhythm
24. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Brief Example
Denotative Meaning
Inflections
Strategic Organization
25. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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26. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Vocal Variety
Pathos
Manuscript Speech
Quoting out of Context
27. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Ethos
Speech of Presentation
Conversational Quality
Vocalized Pause
28. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Mean
Visualization
Derived Credibility
Monotone
29. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Hearing
Appreciative Listening
Listening
Dialect
30. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Stage Fright
Slippery Slope
Expert Testimony
Small Group
31. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Reasoning
Connotative Meaning
Direct Quotation
Oral Report
32. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Critical Thinking
Antithesis
Key-word Outline
Volume
33. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Active Listening
Eye Contact
Attitude
Articulation
34. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Gestures
Bibliography
Pitch
Logos
35. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Small Group
Hearing
Scale Questions
Alliteration
36. An error in reasoning from specific instances - in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence.
Global Plagiarism
Procedural Needs
Hasty Generalization
Mean
37. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Expert Testimony
Reasoning
Supporting Materials
Mean
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.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Problem-Solution Order
Inflections
Vocalized Pause
39. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Parallelism
Hearing
Eye Contact
Task Needs
40. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Vocal Variety
Repetition
Strategic Organization
Reflective-Thinking Method
41. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Speaker
Global Plagiarism
Audience-Centeredness
42. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Situational Audience Analysis
Procedural Needs
Emergent Leader
Conversational Quality
43. A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.
Ethical Decisions
Message
Spatial Order
Topical Order
44. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Dissolve Ending
Impromptu Speech
Emphatic Listening
Audience-Centeredness
45. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Bill of Rights
After-Dinner Speech
Listening
Bandwagon
46. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Derived Credibility
Topic
Hasty Generalization
Appreciative Listening
47. A constant tone or pitch of voice.
Attitude
Channel
Invalid Analogy
Monotone
48. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Credibility
Interference
Paraphrase
Impromptu Speech
49. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Patchwork Plagiarism
Gestures
Egocentrism
Commemorative Speech
50. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Terminal Credibility
Listener
Plagiarism
Problem Solving (small)