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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. A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.
Speaking Outline
Monotone
Paraphrase
Global Plagiarism
2. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Terminal Credibility
Visual Framework
Speech of Presentation
Pathos
3. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Reasoning
Patchwork Plagiarism
Implied Leader
Spare Brain Time
4. A constant tone or pitch of voice.
Residual Message
Procedural Needs
Monotone
Peer Testimony
5. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Channel
Incremental Plagiarism
Appreciative Listening
Delivery Cues
6. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Supporting Materials
Feedback
Speaking Outline
Visual Framework
7. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Listening
Derived Credibility
Speech of Introduction
8. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Chronological Order
Mean
Evidence
Situational Audience Analysis
9. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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10. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Clutter
Internal Preview
Identification
Main Points
11. A group of two people.
Articulation
Dyad
Ethics
Invalid Analogy
12. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Task Needs
Internal Preview
Signpost
Stereo-typing
13. Numerical data.
Abstract Words
Frame of Reference
Pitch
Statistics
14. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Listener
Extemporaneous Speech
Imagery
Terminal Credibility
15. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Credibility
Global Plagiarism
Concrete Words
Testimony
16. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Alliteration
Repetition
Pronunciation
Connective
17. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Impromptu Speech
Identification
Imagery
Terminal Credibility
18. The messages - usually nonverbal - sent from the listener to the speaker.
Oral Report
Feedback
Invalid Analogy
Nonverbal Communication
19. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Metaphor
Name-calling
Ethics
Ethos
20. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Visualization
Emphatic Listening
Acceptance Speech
Terminal Credibility
21. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Imagery
Median
Problem Solving (small)
Eye Contact
22. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Brief Example
Vocal Variety
Manuscript Speech
Signpost
23. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Connective
Active Listening
Frame of Reference
Residual Message
24. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Transition
Positive nervousness
Criteria
Reasoning from Specific Instances
25. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Either-Or
Metaphor
Commemorative Speech
Direct Quotation
26. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotative Meaning
Analogical Reasoning
Internal Preview
Global Plagiarism
27. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Speaker
Hearing
Causal Reasoning
Emergent Leader
28. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Critical Thinking
Stereo-typing
Parallelism
Initial Credibility
29. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Logos
Vocal Variety
Spatial Order
Reflective-Thinking Method
30. A trite or over uesd expression.
Pronunciation
Cliche
Nonverbal Communication
Kinesics
31. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Cliche
Testimony
Main Points
Ad Hominem
32. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Situational Audience Analysis
Eye Contact
Hearing
Specific Purpose
33. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Brief Example
Egocentrism
Supporting Materials
Demographic Audience Analysis
34. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Rate
Name-calling
Concrete Words
Brief Example
35. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Imagery
Implied Leader
Critical Listening
Pause
36. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Red Herring
Problem-Solution Order
Simile
Derived Credibility
37. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Listener
Eye Contact
Credibility
Bibliography
38. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Specific Purpose
Credibility
Ethics
Positive nervousness
39. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Oral Report
Acceptance Speech
Red Herring
Preparation Outline
40. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Symposium
Pathos
Pitch
Interference
41. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Transition
Gestures
Rhetorical Question
Fixed-Alternative Questions
42. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Stereo-typing
Audience-Centeredness
Acceptance Speech
Fixed-Alternative Questions
43. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Paraphrase
Credibility
Oral Report
Expert Testimony
44. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Peer Testimony
Signpost
Critical Thinking
Metaphor
45. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Either-Or
Cliche
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Dialect
46. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Plagiarism
Topical Order
Mean
Procedural Needs
47. The speed at which a person speaks.
Pitch
Panel Discussion
Rate
Plagiarism
48. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Impromptu Speech
Plagiarism
Derived Credibility
Alliteration
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.'
Clutter
False Cause
Topical Order
Credibility
50. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Conversational Quality
Quoting out of Context
Imagery
Residual Message