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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. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Logos
Alliteration
Appreciative Listening
Red Herring
2. The average value of a group of numbers.
Generic 'he'
Mean
Dissolve Ending
Central Idea
3. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethos
Pitch
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Speech of Presentation
4. The means by which a message is communicated.
Topical Order
Channel
Manuscript Speech
Leadership
5. Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.
Paraphrase
Hidden Agenda
Listener
Expert Testimony
6. Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how she or he wants to deliver key parts of the speech.
Delivery Cues
Central Idea
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Frame of Reference
7. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Manuscript Speech
Credibility
Topic
Hearing
8. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Bibliography
Kinesics
Scale Questions
False Cause
9. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Situation
Statistics
Audience-Centeredness
Acceptance Speech
10. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Critical Listening
Consensus
Dissolve Ending
Emergent Leader
11. Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Plagiarism
Speaker
Median
12. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
After-Dinner Speech
Procedural Needs
Slippery Slope
Bill of Rights
13. A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalizations such as - 'uh -' 'um -' and 'er.'
Critical Thinking
Credibility
Vocalized Pause
Inflections
14. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Leadership
Problem Solving (small)
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Key-word Outline
15. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
False Cause
Fallacy
Critical Listening
Ethical Decisions
16. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Comprehensive Listening
Inflections
Maintenance Needs
Main Points
17. The pattern of sound in a speech created by the choice and arrangement of words.
Rhythm
Commemorative Speech
Demographic Audience Analysis
Spare Brain Time
18. A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his speech.
Specific Purpose
Acceptance Speech
Cliche
Nonverbal Communication
19. A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.
Adrenaline
Critical Thinking
Initial Credibility
Spatial Order
20. A speech that introduces the main speaker to the audience.
Ethical Decisions
Mean
Impromptu Speech
Speech of Introduction
21. Uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
Articulation
Stage Fright
Internal Summary
Adrenaline
22. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Initial Credibility
Supporting Materials
Problem Solving (small)
Egocentrism
23. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Scale Questions
Name-calling
Extemporaneous Speech
Small Group
24. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Leadership
Key-word Outline
Pause
After-Dinner Speech
25. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Speaking Outline
Question of Policy
Specific Purpose
Emphatic Listening
26. A trite or over uesd expression.
Terminal Credibility
Key-word Outline
Cliche
Metaphor
27. Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself giving a successful presentation.
Visualization
Credibility
Critical Thinking
Scale Questions
28. A group member to whom other members defer because of his rank - expertise - or other quality.
Listening
Adrenaline
Ethos
Implied Leader
29. The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.
Acceptance Speech
Patchwork Plagiarism
Speech of Introduction
Median
30. The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.
After-Dinner Speech
Kinesics
Main Points
Initial Credibility
31. Communication that occurs as a result of appearance - posture - gesture - eye contact - facial expressions - and other non-linguistic factors.
Listening
Nonverbal Communication
Causal Order
Volume
32. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Situational Audience Analysis
Acceptance Speech
Reasoning from Principle
Gestures
33. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Spare Brain Time
Egocentrism
Main Points
Spatial Order
34. A speech that pays tribute to a person - a group of people - an institution - or an idea.
Commemorative Speech
Key-word Outline
Parallelism
Metaphor
35. 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.
Emergent Leader
Stage Fright
Problem-Solution Order
Emphatic Listening
36. A speech to entertain that makes a thoughtful point about its subject in a light-hearted manner.
Parallelism
Topic
After-Dinner Speech
Maintenance Needs
37. A variety of a language distinguished by variations or accent - grammar - or vocabulary.
Name-calling
Global Plagiarism
Dialect
Main Points
38. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Adrenaline
Emphatic Listening
Example
Frame of Reference
39. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Situation
Nonverbal Communication
Slippery Slope
Clutter
40. A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.
Dissolve Ending
Rhetorical Question
Scale Questions
Terminal Credibility
41. A group member who emerges as leader during the group's deliberations.
Speaking Outline
Preparation Outline
Symposium
Emergent Leader
42. The credibility of a speaker at the end of the speech.
Transition
Critical Listening
Denotative Meaning
Terminal Credibility
43. Focused - organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas - the soundness of evidence - and the differences between fact and opinion.
Frame of Reference
Parallelism
Critical Thinking
Situational Audience Analysis
44. 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.
Stage Fright
Consensus
Derived Credibility
Analogical Reasoning
45. The highness or lowness of a speaker's voice.
Volume
Goodwill
After-Dinner Speech
Pitch
46. A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step be step to a dramatic final statement.
Dissolve Ending
Panel Discussion
Causal Order
Rhetorical Question
47. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
Spatial Order
Global Plagiarism
Conversational Quality
Goodwill
48. A speech presenting the findings - conclusions - decisions - etc. of a small group.
Oral Report
Credibility
Peer Testimony
Symposium
49. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Adrenaline
Procedural Needs
Logos
Pause
50. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Gestures
Frame of Reference
Speech of Introduction
Generic 'he'