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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.
Rate
Testimony
Repetition
Stage Fright
2. A group of two people.
Dyad
Kinesics
Dissolve Ending
Plagiarism
3. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Egocentrism
Procedural Needs
Situation
Bibliography
4. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Feedback
Pathos
Adrenaline
Task Needs
5. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Red Herring
Rate
Repetition
Global Plagiarism
6. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Rate
Evidence
Symposium
Terminal Credibility
7. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Hasty Generalization
Ethical Decisions
Specific Purpose
Frame of Reference
8. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Vocalized Pause
Internal Summary
Global Plagiarism
Imagery
9. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Speech of Introduction
Small Group
Acceptance Speech
Derived Credibility
10. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Metaphor
Task Needs
Listener
Conversational Quality
11. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Frame of Reference
Abstract Words
Emergent Leader
Criteria
12. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Rhythm
Speech of Introduction
Strategic Organization
Connective
13. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Pitch
Visual Framework
Logos
Central Idea
14. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Critical Thinking
Visual Framework
Alliteration
Causal Reasoning
15. Presenting a speech so it sounds spontaneous no matter how many times it has been rehearsed.
Maintenance Needs
Conversational Quality
Attitude
Spatial Order
16. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Global Plagiarism
Spatial Order
Ethics
17. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Appreciative Listening
Supporting Materials
Dissolve Ending
Crescendo Ending
18. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Global Plagiarism
Credibility
Vocal Variety
Reflective-Thinking Method
19. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Median
Impromptu Speech
Spare Brain Time
Stage Fright
20. The average value of a group of numbers.
Delivery Cues
Mean
Kinesics
Hasty Generalization
21. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Bandwagon
Feedback
Manuscript Speech
Ad Hominem
22. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Parallelism
Median
Articulation
Manuscript Speech
23. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Transition
Hypothetical Example
Denotative Meaning
24. The subject of a speech.
Topic
Credibility
Plagiarism
After-Dinner Speech
25. An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.
Hypothetical Example
Main Points
Adrenaline
Terminal Credibility
26. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Preparation Outline
Cliche
Evidence
Task Needs
27. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Kinesics
Clutter
Commemorative Speech
28. The loudness or softness of a speaker's voice.
Volume
Speaker
Peer Testimony
Positive nervousness
29. The means by which a message is communicated.
Emergent Leader
Channel
Task Needs
Residual Message
30. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Example
Attitude
Expert Testimony
Stereo-typing
31. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Leadership
Appreciative Listening
Initial Credibility
32. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Metaphor
Central Idea
Gestures
Red Herring
33. A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.
Hypothetical Example
Speaking Outline
Central Idea
Fixed-Alternative Questions
34. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Comprehensive Listening
Either-Or
Bibliography
Hearing
35. The audiences perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Ethos
Transition
Credibility
Goodwill
36. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Credibility
Speech of Introduction
Commemorative Speech
Listening
37. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Central Idea
Name-calling
Open-Ended Questions
Repetition
38. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Initial Credibility
Cliche
Symposium
Vocalized Pause
39. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Eye Contact
Small Group
Spare Brain Time
Residual Message
40. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Either-Or
Bill of Rights
Topic
Critical Listening
41. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Cliche
Ethics
Pause
Scale Questions
42. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Visual Framework
Quoting out of Context
Testimony
False Cause
43. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Vocal Variety
Antithesis
Manuscript Speech
Question of Policy
44. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Preparation Outline
Red Herring
Creating Common Grounds
Rhythm
45. 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
Channel
Feedback
Problem Solving (small)
46. A detailed outline developed during the process of speech preparation that includes the title - specific purpose - central idea - introduction - main points - sub points - connectives - conclusion - and bibliography of a speech.
Preparation Outline
Spare Brain Time
Direct Quotation
Incremental Plagiarism
47. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Key-word Outline
Comprehensive Listening
Symposium
Procedural Needs
48. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Dissolve Ending
Plagiarism
Emphatic Listening
Direct Quotation
49. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Dialect
Testimony
Emergent Leader
Credibility
50. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Hidden Agenda
Dyad
Comprehensive Listening
Impromptu Speech