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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. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Clutter
Vocal Variety
Patchwork Plagiarism
Rhythm
2. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Acceptance Speech
Volume
After-Dinner Speech
Task Needs
3. The speed at which a person speaks.
Symposium
Rate
Crescendo Ending
Reasoning from Specific Instances
4. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Parallelism
Metaphor
Visual Framework
Volume
5. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Example
Bibliography
Active Listening
Listener
6. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Median
Paraphrase
Testimony
Cliche
7. A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.
Conversational Quality
Extemporaneous Speech
Rhetorical Question
Signpost
8. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Emphatic Listening
Causal Reasoning
Main Points
Identification
9. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Central Idea
Invalid Analogy
Concrete Words
Manuscript Speech
10. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Reasoning from Principle
Abstract Words
Invalid Analogy
Credibility
11. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Plagiarism
Clutter
Abstract Words
Criteria
12. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Procedural Needs
Nonverbal Communication
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Hidden Agenda
13. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Main Points
Extemporaneous Speech
Key-word Outline
Brief Example
14. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
After-Dinner Speech
Either-Or
Strategic Organization
Problem-Solution Order
15. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Red Herring
Bill of Rights
Concrete Words
Rate
16. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Statistics
Impromptu Speech
Ethical Decisions
Spatial Order
17. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Ethical Decisions
Emphatic Listening
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Critical Listening
18. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Rhythm
Visualization
Open-Ended Questions
Residual Message
19. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Transition
Situational Audience Analysis
Consensus
Emergent Leader
20. A trite or over uesd expression.
Hidden Agenda
Positive nervousness
Cliche
Antithesis
21. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Reasoning
Message
Peer Testimony
Vocal Variety
22. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Topic
Dialect
Speaking Outline
Listener
23. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Denotative Meaning
Designated Leader
Clutter
Visual Framework
24. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Concrete Words
Stage Fright
Creating Common Grounds
Supporting Materials
25. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Problem-Solution Order
Audience-Centeredness
Denotative Meaning
Positive nervousness
26. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Dissolve Ending
Incremental Plagiarism
Appreciative Listening
Abstract Words
27. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Pitch
Evidence
Designated Leader
Listening
28. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Ethical Decisions
Fallacy
Preparation Outline
Listening
29. 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
Generic 'he'
Red Herring
Signpost
30. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Antithesis
Creating Common Grounds
Connotative Meaning
Delivery Cues
31. Reasoning that moves from a general principle to a specific conclusion.
False Cause
Situation
Leadership
Reasoning from Principle
32. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Derived Credibility
Comprehensive Listening
Stage Fright
Spare Brain Time
33. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Global Plagiarism
Ethos
Slippery Slope
Visualization
34. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Causal Reasoning
Dialect
Delivery Cues
Spare Brain Time
35. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Internal Summary
Channel
Listening
Eye Contact
36. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Implied Leader
Causal Reasoning
Critical Listening
Crescendo Ending
37. Numerical data.
Statistics
Ethical Decisions
Fallacy
Small Group
38. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Connotative Meaning
Terminal Credibility
Listening
Spare Brain Time
39. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Leadership
Red Herring
Procedural Needs
Oral Report
40. A structured conversation on a given topic among several people in front of an audience.
Creating Common Grounds
Panel Discussion
Manuscript Speech
Inflections
41. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Cliche
Hidden Agenda
Commemorative Speech
Open-Ended Questions
42. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Vocal Variety
Adrenaline
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Frame of Reference
43. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Testimony
Monotone
Open-Ended Questions
44. The use of vivid language to create mental images of objects - actions - or ideas.
Paraphrase
Situational Audience Analysis
Identification
Imagery
45. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Visual Framework
Alliteration
Eye Contact
Delivery Cues
46. Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that which is true for the first case is also true for the second.
Analogical Reasoning
Parallelism
Mean
Generic 'he'
47. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Monotone
Terminal Credibility
Paraphrase
Spare Brain Time
48. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Active Listening
Attitude
Consensus
Name-calling
49. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Terminal Credibility
Preview Statement
Bill of Rights
Rhetorical Question
50. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Visual Framework
Credibility
Panel Discussion
Hasty Generalization