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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. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Imagery
Main Points
Credibility
Residual Message
2. The means by which a message is communicated.
Visual Framework
Channel
Denotative Meaning
Interference
3. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Spatial Order
Example
Pronunciation
Dialect
4. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Gestures
Residual Message
Speech of Introduction
Speech of Presentation
5. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Panel Discussion
Stage Fright
Preparation Outline
Denotative Meaning
6. The person who receives the speaker's message.
Listener
Terminal Credibility
Vocalized Pause
Goodwill
7. 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.
Quoting out of Context
Paraphrase
Preparation Outline
Initial Credibility
8. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Problem Solving (small)
Delivery Cues
Connective
Incremental Plagiarism
9. Changes in a speaker's rate - pitch - and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
Vocal Variety
Criteria
Analogical Reasoning
Statistics
10. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Metaphor
Identification
Adrenaline
Abstract Words
11. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Criteria
Pathos
Vocal Variety
Small Group
12. Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age - gender - religious orientation - group membership - and racial - ethnic - or cultural background.
Demographic Audience Analysis
Preparation Outline
Testimony
Reflective-Thinking Method
13. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Stereo-typing
Preview Statement
Eye Contact
Procedural Needs
14. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Example
Articulation
Quoting out of Context
Dyad
15. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Clutter
Speech of Presentation
Ethical Decisions
Red Herring
16. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Implied Leader
Parallelism
Causal Order
Supporting Materials
17. The meaning suggested by the association or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
Initial Credibility
Simile
Connotative Meaning
Adrenaline
18. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Analogical Reasoning
Task Needs
False Cause
Ethnocentrism
19. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.
Ethical Decisions
Visual Framework
Patchwork Plagiarism
Credibility
20. A speech that presents someone a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Visual Framework
Speech of Presentation
Nonverbal Communication
Speaking Outline
21. Testimony from ordinary people with first-hand experience or insight on a topic.
Peer Testimony
Strategic Organization
Main Points
Hearing
22. A list of all the sources used in preparing the speech.
Emphatic Listening
Cliche
Symposium
Bibliography
23. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Speech of Presentation
Concrete Words
Visualization
Creating Common Grounds
24. Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
Audience-Centeredness
Channel
Goodwill
Bandwagon
25. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Crescendo Ending
Global Plagiarism
Chronological Order
Frame of Reference
26. Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.
Ad Hominem
Eye Contact
Internal Preview
Situation
27. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Invalid Analogy
Conversational Quality
Bibliography
Situation
28. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Rhetorical Question
Terminal Credibility
Alliteration
Reasoning from Principle
29. A constant tone or pitch of voice.
Monotone
Critical Thinking
Clutter
Speech of Introduction
30. A group of two people.
Stereo-typing
Ad Hominem
Key-word Outline
Dyad
31. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Topical Order
Scale Questions
Bandwagon
Central Idea
32. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Criteria
Central Idea
Oral Report
Statistics
33. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Paraphrase
Bibliography
Rhetorical Question
Fixed-Alternative Questions
34. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Pathos
Chronological Order
Global Plagiarism
Slippery Slope
35. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Ethnocentrism
Implied Leader
Appreciative Listening
Comprehensive Listening
36. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Listening
Global Plagiarism
Interference
Visual Framework
37. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Pitch
Bill of Rights
Demographic Audience Analysis
Vocal Variety
38. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Scale Questions
Hypothetical Example
Message
Emphatic Listening
39. A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.
Oral Report
Crescendo Ending
Internal Summary
Ad Hominem
40. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Small Group
Clutter
Goodwill
Internal Preview
41. The audiences perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.
Ethical Decisions
Positive nervousness
Pitch
Goodwill
42. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Comprehensive Listening
Articulation
Clutter
Dissolve Ending
43. The materials used to support a speaker's ideas.The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples - statistics - and testimonies.
Rate
Appreciative Listening
Supporting Materials
Concrete Words
44. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Procedural Needs
Stage Fright
Implied Leader
Ethics
45. A person who is elected or appointed as leader when the group is formed.
Designated Leader
Stage Fright
Cliche
Global Plagiarism
46. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Simile
Critical Listening
Paraphrase
Speaker
47. A fallacy that attacks the person rather than the dealing with the real issue in dispute.
Metaphor
Ad Hominem
Comprehensive Listening
Peer Testimony
48. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Pause
Main Points
Preparation Outline
Dyad
49. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Kinesics
Red Herring
Emergent Leader
Example
50. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Bill of Rights
Problem Solving (small)
Attitude
Quoting out of Context