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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. 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
Positive nervousness
Antithesis
Either-Or
2. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Spare Brain Time
Preview Statement
Adrenaline
Visual Framework
3. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Pathos
Paraphrase
Creating Common Grounds
Delivery Cues
4. 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.
Spatial Order
Oral Report
Problem-Solution Order
Kinesics
5. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Direct Quotation
Statistics
Creating Common Grounds
6. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Internal Preview
Active Listening
Ethnocentrism
Feedback
7. Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
Feedback
Either-Or
Active Listening
Visualization
8. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Hearing
Oral Report
Parallelism
Causal Order
9. The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.
Volume
Credibility
Leadership
Simile
10. 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.
Repetition
Question of Policy
Expert Testimony
Analogical Reasoning
11. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Ethos
Causal Reasoning
Plagiarism
Pronunciation
12. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Quoting out of Context
Procedural Needs
Pathos
Task Needs
13. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Comprehensive Listening
Scale Questions
Attitude
Panel Discussion
14. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Ad Hominem
Reflective-Thinking Method
Pitch
Pathos
15. The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Pause
Ethics
Speaker
Acceptance Speech
16. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Evidence
Speaking Outline
Vocal Variety
Task Needs
17. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Crescendo Ending
Open-Ended Questions
Expert Testimony
Articulation
18. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Hasty Generalization
Invalid Analogy
Simile
Dissolve Ending
19. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Causal Reasoning
Patchwork Plagiarism
Pathos
Cliche
20. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Slippery Slope
Hearing
Connective
Interference
21. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Procedural Needs
Message
Transition
Strategic Organization
22. 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.'
Oral Report
Symposium
Evidence
False Cause
23. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Bibliography
Attitude
Articulation
Chronological Order
24. The subject of a speech.
Crescendo Ending
Situation
Maintenance Needs
Topic
25. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Peer Testimony
Reasoning from Principle
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Ad Hominem
26. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Situational Audience Analysis
Main Points
Mean
Spatial Order
27. Reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive causes or sentences.
Small Group
Attitude
Repetition
Invalid Analogy
28. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Speaker
Maintenance Needs
Name-calling
Pause
29. Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Interference
Example
Listener
Audience-Centeredness
30. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Clutter
Parallelism
Audience-Centeredness
Stereo-typing
31. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Question of Policy
Preview Statement
Problem-Solution Order
Topical Order
32. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Critical Thinking
Frame of Reference
Paraphrase
Median
33. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Speech of Introduction
Emphatic Listening
Rhythm
Quoting out of Context
34. A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.
Topical Order
Parallelism
Pronunciation
Credibility
35. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Ethical Decisions
Demographic Audience Analysis
Dialect
Ad Hominem
36. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
37. 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.
Spatial Order
Preparation Outline
Pronunciation
Situation
38. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Small Group
Concrete Words
Appreciative Listening
Alliteration
39. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Implied Leader
Credibility
Manuscript Speech
Statistics
40. Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
Open-Ended Questions
Bibliography
Adrenaline
Slippery Slope
41. Standards on which a judgement or decision can be based.
Criteria
Alliteration
Spare Brain Time
False Cause
42. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Leadership
Pause
Slippery Slope
Maintenance Needs
43. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Question of Policy
Delivery Cues
Task Needs
Dyad
44. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Gestures
Paraphrase
Causal Order
Impromptu Speech
45. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Connective
Active Listening
Testimony
Identification
46. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Clutter
Central Idea
Reasoning
Audience-Centeredness
47. 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.
Procedural Needs
Hidden Agenda
Situational Audience Analysis
Pathos
48. An explicit comparison - introduced with the word like or as - between things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Stage Fright
Simile
Designated Leader
Ethos
49. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Visualization
Problem-Solution Order
Pronunciation
Comprehensive Listening
50. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Peer Testimony
Derived Credibility
Reasoning
Positive nervousness