Public Speaking

Choose the most appropriate propositional type for the following speech topic: "To persuade my audience that Walmart hurts/helps small towns and businesses."

Proposition of Fact

Choose the most appropriate propositional type for the following speech topic: "To persuade my audience that stricter laws should be passed for elderly drivers."

Proposition of Policy

Choose the most appropriate propositional type for the following speech topic: "To persuade my audience that hunting is cruel treatment of animals."

Proposition of Value

"The flickering light of the fire reveals the fearful faces of the campers" is an example of _____.

alliteration

"We must put an end to war - or war will put an end to us" is an example of _____.

antithesis

A rhetorical strategy that uses contrasting statements in order to make a rhetorical point is called a/an __________________.

antithesis

state anxiety

anxiety caused by worrisome factors in a specific speaking situation

Saying "dunno" instead of "don't know" is an error in

articulation

The act of producing clear, precise and distinct speech is called __________.

articulation

The term __________ refers to the norms that govern communication in different situations and relationships.

context

According to the textbook, this term means that you are prepared to discuss an issue intelligently.

conversant

Aristotle claimed that a person who had ethos, or speaker _________, was not only able to convey good sense and good will, but also good morals.

credibility

__________ is the audience's perception of whether the speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.

credibility

The accent, inflection, intonation and sound quality of a speaker's voice is called ______.

diction or enunciation

Speechmaking is a form of power and therefore carries with it heavy __________ responsibilities.

ethical

Your textbook defines _________ as the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true.

inference

When the general purpose of your speech is to _________, you act primarily as teacher or lecturer.

inform

Trait-anxiety

internal anxiety that an individual brings to the speaking situation; not dependent on the specific situation

According to your textbook, which of the following is category of multicultural audience analysis?

language

Thesis Statement

one sentence that succinctly and accurately lets the audience know what the speech will be about and what the speaker hopes to accomplish

As your textbook explains, visual aids are most effective when they are displayed

only while the speaker is discussing them.

According to your textbook, _________ plagiarism occurs when a speaker copies word for word from two or three sources.

patchwork

The opinions of ordinary people who have firsthand experience or insight on a topic are referred to as _______ testimony.

peer

The _____ outline is a full-sentence outline that is used during the planning stages to flesh out ideas, arrange main points, and to rehearse the speech.

preparation

According to your textbook, the last part of a speech introduction usually...

previews and structures the speech.

Which speech organizational style would be best for a speech with this specific purpose statement: To persuade my audience to participate in the Operation Christmas Child charity project

problem-solution

Saying "pitcher" instead of "picture" in a speech referring to photos of the planet Mars is an error in...

pronunciation

The burden of __________ always rests with the persuasive speaker who advocates change.

proof

To evaluate sources and narrow the support you use for a speech topic, your textbook says you should always evaluate each source based "on ______ and credibility."

quality

According to your textbook, "words and gestures that allow you to move smoothly from one idea to the next throughout your speech, showing relationships between ideas and emphasizing important points" are called ______.

signposts

Credibility Statement

statement made to the audience that explains why the speaker is interested in, has personal experience or connection with, or shows expertise about the topic

According to your textbook, global plagiarism occurs when a person...

takes a speech entirely from one source and passes it off as her or his own

According to your textbook, _____ is one sentence or statement that succinctly and accurately lets the audience know what the speech will be about and what the speaker plans to accomplish in the speech. It is a one-sentence encapsulation of the main points or central idea.

thesis statement

Which speech organizational style would be best for a speech with this specific purpose statement: To inform my audience about the four major elements necessary for rope climbing

topical

The __________ model of communication views communication as an ongoing, circular process.

transactional

According to your text, ________ refers to "phrases or sentences that lead from one distinct-but-connected idea to another." These phrases are the "glue" that hold a speech together and help move the audience smoothly through the presentation.

transitional statements

An _____________ presentation is a speech when you are completely unaware of your audience's characteristics.

unacquainted-audience

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? The mayor's plan to turn the rundown section of the city into a park will never work. Don't forget that she was involved in a scandal last year.

Ad hominem

When a persuasive speech explores the truth of falsity of a statement, it is known as a question of ____.

Fact

Errors in reasoning that occur when a speaker fails to use appropriate or applicable evidence for his/her argument are called ______.

Fallacies

_________ is the context, viewpoint, or set of presuppositions or of evaluative criteria within which a person's perception and thinking seem always to occur.

Frame of reference

Our preferred method of completing everyday tasks or our approach to solving

Praxeology

Beliefs

Principles or assumptions about the universe

The way we see our relationship to the universe and to other people

Cosmology

Values

A guiding belief that regulates attitude

Scrutiny Fear

Anxiety resulting from being in a situation where one is being watched or observed, or where one perceives themselves as being watched, is known as scrutiny fear. This sort of anxiety does not necessarily involve interacting with other people.

What we see as right or wrong, good or bad, and fair or unfair

Axiology

According to your textbook, public speaking skills are critical for which of the following?

Civic engagement, career trajectory, intellectual development

What do you call the psychological discomfort felt when a person is presented with two competing ideas or pieces of evidence?

Cognitive dissonance

_______ can be defined as the most recent statistical characteristics of a population.

Demographics

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? You can either double the size of the police department or let criminals roam the streets.

Either-or

__________ refers to the process of taking an idea or mental image, associating that image with words, and then speaking those words in order to convey a message.

Encoding

The way we acquire knowledge and/or what counts as knowledge

Epistemology

Another word for speaker credibility is _______.

Ethos

Powerless phrases such as "I thought we should," "I sort of think," or "Maybe we should" that communicate uncertainty are _______________.

Hedges

__________ is the connection that is fostered between the speaker and his/her audience by highlighting shared attributes or attitudes.

Identification

__________ refers to the words, nonverbal behavior, and other signals that are transmitted from one person to another.

Message

Because it follows the process of human thinking, __________ is particularly useful for organizing persuasive speeches that seek immediate action.

Monroe's Motivated Sequence

A speaker should always limit the amount of text on a slide. What is meant by the "5x5 rule"?

No more than FIVE lines of text and FIVE words per line one each slide

Concern by a listener about an upcoming job interview, the lack of air conditioning, or a toothache are all examples of ______ in the communication process.

Noise

How we see the nature of reality or what we see as true or false

Ontology

_____ are words or symbols that illustrate the relationship between search terms and help the search engine expand or limit results.

Parity Terms

Errors in reasoning that occur when a speaker fails to use appropriate or applicable evidence for his/her argument are called ______.

Pathos

This type of fallacy introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention away from the real subject being discussed.

Red herring

A type of language that most people understand but that is not considered acceptable in formal or polite conversation is called _____________.

Slang

Visual aides are often helpful to a speaker because they can....

Spark interest, build emotional connections, explain abstract ideas, and increase audience understanding

Elements of the communication process

Worldview, channel, and noise

Attitudes

a learned predisposition toward a given object

Preview Statement

a statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body

The means through which a message travels

channel

When the main points of your speech follow a time pattern, they are organized in

chronological order.

The term __________ refers to all of the people in the communication interaction or speech setting.

communicator

The three types of questions that give rise to persuasive speeches are questions of

fact, value, policy

After selecting a topic, what is the next step of speech preparation?

formulating a purpose statement

According to your textbook, _________ plagiarism occurs when most of the speech is the speaker's original work, but quotes or other information have been used without being cited.

incremental