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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. Audience Analysis that focuses on situational factors such as the size of the audience - the physical setting of the speech - and the disposition of the audience toward the topic - the speaker - and the occasion.
Rhetorical Question
Symposium
Imagery
Situational Audience Analysis
2. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Evidence
Concrete Words
Nonverbal Communication
Adrenaline
3. Numerical data.
Statistics
Kinesics
Delivery Cues
Crescendo Ending
4. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Statistics
Patchwork Plagiarism
Conversational Quality
Appreciative Listening
5. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Statistics
Acceptance Speech
Speech of Presentation
6. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Goodwill
Commemorative Speech
Hearing
Hypothetical Example
7. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Crescendo Ending
Dialect
Spatial Order
Critical Listening
8. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Symposium
Reflective-Thinking Method
Identification
Emphatic Listening
9. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Connotative Meaning
Egocentrism
Red Herring
Conversational Quality
10. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Pronunciation
Metaphor
Consensus
Critical Thinking
11. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Question of Policy
Concrete Words
Residual Message
Egocentrism
12. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Alliteration
Paraphrase
Denotative Meaning
Abstract Words
13. Whatever a speaker communicates to a someone else.
Concrete Words
Rate
Example
Message
14. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Internal Summary
Red Herring
Chronological Order
Preview Statement
15. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.
Causal Order
Parallelism
Invalid Analogy
Chronological Order
16. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
Plagiarism
Leadership
Main Points
Quoting out of Context
17. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Slippery Slope
Critical Thinking
Expert Testimony
Bandwagon
18. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Gestures
Oral Report
Reasoning from Principle
Designated Leader
19. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Example
Alliteration
Spare Brain Time
Central Idea
20. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Paraphrase
Speaker
Ethnocentrism
Task Needs
21. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Causal Order
Interference
Ethnocentrism
Global Plagiarism
22. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Eye Contact
After-Dinner Speech
Attitude
Small Group
23. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Strategic Organization
Median
Red Herring
Creating Common Grounds
24. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Leadership
Kinesics
Antithesis
Symposium
25. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Reflective-Thinking Method
Speaking Outline
Internal Summary
Frame of Reference
26. A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.
Symposium
Main Points
Brief Example
Impromptu Speech
27. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Slippery Slope
Listening
Designated Leader
Situation
28. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Abstract Words
Manuscript Speech
Designated Leader
Ad Hominem
29. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Rhetorical Question
Brief Example
Ethos
Problem Solving (small)
30. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Key-word Outline
Derived Credibility
Repetition
Demographic Audience Analysis
31. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Key-word Outline
Identification
Stage Fright
32. A speech that is written out word for word and is read to the audience.
Manuscript Speech
Channel
Topic
Antithesis
33. Reasoning that moves from a particular fact to a general conclusion.
Bill of Rights
Peer Testimony
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Scale Questions
34. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
False Cause
Kinesics
Volume
35. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Evidence
Causal Reasoning
Direct Quotation
Credibility
36. The speed at which a person speaks.
Clutter
Ethics
Rate
Ethnocentrism
37. A five-step method for directing discussion in a problem-solving small group.
Positive nervousness
Specific Purpose
Chronological Order
Reflective-Thinking Method
38. A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values - goals - and experiences.
Vocalized Pause
Listening
Identification
Peer Testimony
39. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Preview Statement
Dissolve Ending
Dyad
Critical Listening
40. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Active Listening
Nonverbal Communication
Demographic Audience Analysis
Speech of Introduction
41. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Reasoning from Principle
Terminal Credibility
Situation
Logos
42. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Imagery
Testimony
Alliteration
Dyad
43. Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.
Egocentrism
Quoting out of Context
Reasoning
Criteria
44. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Emergent Leader
Positive nervousness
Reasoning
Simile
45. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Internal Preview
Strategic Organization
Paraphrase
Metaphor
46. Words that refer to ideas or concepts.
Egocentrism
Analogical Reasoning
Alliteration
Abstract Words
47. A trite or over uesd expression.
Cliche
Problem Solving (small)
Alliteration
Bandwagon
48. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Articulation
Peer Testimony
Maintenance Needs
Credibility
49. The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.
Transition
Denotative Meaning
Frame of Reference
Eye Contact
50. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Situation
Visual Framework
Kinesics
Stage Fright