Speech midterm

The introduction for a speech is generally only _____ percent of the entire time the speaker will spend speaking.

10 to 15

The conclusion of the speech is generally about ________ percent of the speech.

5 to 10

Even when we are listening carefully, we usually grasp only about ________ percent of what we hear.

50

Differences between public speaking and regular conversation are:

All of the above.

As a public speaker, you face ethical issues when

All of these answers are correct.

As your textbook explains, many of the skills used in public speaking are the same as those used in everyday conversation. These skills include

All of these answers are correct.

When listening for a speaker's evidence, you should keep an ear out for its

All of these answers are correct.

_____ analysis is the process of gathering information about the people in your audience so that you can understand their needs, expectations, beliefs, values, attitudes, and likely opinions.

Audience

As your textbook explains, the means by which a message is communicated is termed the

Channel

_____ testimony is an account given by someone who is a recognized authority on a given topic.

Expert

The _____ outline develops the full detail of the message.

Preparation

_____ is scholarly investigation into a topic to discover, revise, or report facts, theories, and applications.

Research

The _____ outline helps you stay organized in front of the audience without reading to them.

Speaking

_____ is the mathematical subfield that gathers, analyzes, and makes inferences about collected data.

Statistics

Which of the following is a correctly worded specific purpose statement for an informative speech?

To inform my audience about the usefulness of scrapbooking to save a family's memories.

When finalizing a specific purpose for your speech, which of the following is NOT a question you should ask yourself?

Will the topic make my professor angry?

You can use your audience analysis to help you adjust your speech in terms of how you:

a and b are both correct.

How much time does the average adult spend in conversation?

about 30 percent of waking hours

Noise is anything that interferes with listening, and it can be

all of the above

When evaluating internet sources you should look for:

all of the above

An effective conclusion includes a:

all the above are correct.

Citing sources within your speech includes:

all the above are correct.

During an introduction, speakers attempt to:

all the above are correct.

Entertaining speaking would include:

all the above are correct.

Questions you should ask when evaluating sources include:

all the above are correct.

Students of public speaking leave the class:

all the above are correct.

The reason to use support in a speech is to:

all the above are correct.

When creating your main points, make sure that they are:

all the above are correct.

As ethical communicators, we must:

always give credit for the information we convey in our writing and our speeches.

A(n) _____ is the device a speaker uses at the beginning of a speech to capture an audience's interest and make them interested in the speech's topic.

attention-getter

Restating your main ideas in your speech conclusion helps:

both a and b are correct.

The types of primary research you can use for a speech include:

both a and b are correct.

The ________ is a one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.

central idea

According to your textbook, brainstorming is especially helpful when you are having trouble

choosing a speech topic.

The _____ speech pattern places the main idea in the time order in which items appear—whether backward or forward.

chronological

The preparation outline has ________________ for main points and sub-points.

complete sentences

Audiences are egocentric which means that they are:

concerned with what affects them.

According to your textbook, when you listen to evaluate a speaker's message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it, what kind of listening is involved?

critical

As Amanda analyzed the audience for her speech about organic foods, she focused on such things as their gender, age, and cultural background. In doing so, she was engaging in __________ audience analysis

demographic

A _____ quotation is any time you utilize another individual's words in a format that resembles the way they were originally said or written.

direct

Giving respectful attention to a speaker or topic, even when you may disagree is an example of:

ethical listening

Because speechmaking is a form of power, we must always be sure to speak

ethically.

The _____ is a pictorial way of understanding the three fundamental parts of ethics.

ethics pyramid

When a receiver sends a message back to a source, we call this _____.

feedback

Everything a speaker says is filtered through a listener's

frame of reference.

A _____ purpose refers to the broad goal in creating and delivering a speech.

general

The three kinds of plagiarism discussed in your textbook are

global plagiarism, patchwork plagiarism, and incremental plagiarism.

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

inform

The primary purpose of _____ presentations is to share one's knowledge of a subject with an audience.

informative

Audience-centeredness means that public speakers should

keep the audience foremost in mind throughout the speechmaking process.

According to your textbook, the specific purpose statement for a speech should be

limited to one distinct idea.

Hearing is accidental, involuntary and effortless, while _________________ is focused, voluntary and intentional.

listening

Public speaking is the process of designing and delivering a _____ to an audience.

message

A _____ is when you take someone's ideas and restate them using your own words to convey the intended meaning.

paraphrase

Conducting a _____ is a good way to start the topic selection process.

personal inventory

A(n) _____ speech can be distinguished from an informative speech by the fact that it includes a call for action for the audience to make some change in their behavior or thinking.

persuasive

Using someone else's words or ideas without giving credit is called:

plagiarism.

An effective _____ identifies the specific main points that will be present in the speech body.

preview

A _____ question is a question to which no actual reply is expected.

rhetorical

A _____ is a guide a speaker gives her or his audience to help the audience keep up with the content of a speech.

signpost

The _____ speech pattern organizes information according to how things fit together in physical space.

spatial

The ________ expresses precisely what you hope to accomplish with your speech.

specific purpose

"To inform my audience about the history of the Super Bowl" is an example of a

specific purpose.

The three main goals of public speaking are:

to inform, to persuade, and to entertain

A _____ is a phrase or sentence that indicates that a speaker is moving from one main point to another main point in a speech.

transition