The Art Of Public Speaking Flashcards

The means by which a message is communicated.

The person who receives the speaker's message.

<p>The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The message, usually nonverbal, sent from listener to a speaker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anything that impedes the communication of a message.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The time and place in which speech communication occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of language to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Paying close attention to, and making sense of, what we hear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listening to understand the message of the speaker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listening to evaluate a message for the purpose of accepting or rejecting it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The difference between the rate at which most people talk (120 to 150 words a minute) and the rate at which the brain can process language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The subject of a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The broad goal of a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his or her speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What a speaker wants the audience to remember after they have forgotten everything else in a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values, goals, and experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, group membership, and racial, ethnic, or cultural background.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people, usually by assuming that all members of the group are alike.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical setting for the speech, and the disposition of the audience toward the topic, the speaker, and the occasion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person, policy, belief, institution, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A listing of all the books, periodicals, and other resources owned by a library.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A number used in libraries to classify books and periodicals and to indicate where they can be found on the shelves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A research aid that catalogues articles from a large number of magazines, journals, and newspapers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A summary of a magazine or journal article, written by someone other than the original author.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A work that synthesizes a large amount of related information for easy access by researchers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A comprehensive reference work that provides information about all branches of human knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A comprehensive reference work devoted to a specific subject, such as religion, art, law, science, music, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reference work published annually that contains information about the previous year.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reference work that provides information about people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A search engine that combines internet technology with traditional library methods cataloguing and assessing data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organization that in the absence of a clearly identified author, is responsible for the content of a document on the internet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An interview conducted to gather information for a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A list compiled early in the research process of works that look as if they might contain helpful information about a speech topic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The materials used to support a speaker's ideas. The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples, statistics, and testimony.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, experiences, or the like.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A story, narrative, or anecdote developed at some length to illustrate a point.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Numerical data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The average value of a group of numbers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number that appears the most.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight on a topic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Testimony that is presented word for word.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To restate or summarize a source's ideas in one's own words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Putting a speech together in a particular way to achieve a particular result with a particular audience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The major points developed in the body of a speech. Most speeches contain from two to five main points.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a directional pattern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of speech organization in which the first main point deals with the existence of a problem and the second main point presents a solution to the problem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The materials used to support a speaker's ideas. The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples, statistics, and testimony.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A very brief statement that indicates where a speaker is in the speech or that focuses attention on key ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The audience's perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A conclusion in which the speech builds to a zenith of power and intensity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step by step to a dramatic final statement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A detailed outline developed during the process of speech preparation that includes the title, specific purpose, central idea, introduction, main points, subpoints, connectives, conclusion, and bibliography of a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationship among the speaker's ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A list of all the sources used in preparing a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A brief outline used to jog a speaker's memory during the presentation of a speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Directions in a speaking outline to help a speaker remember how they want to deliver key parts of the speech.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The meaning suggested by the associations or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A book of synonyms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Words that refer to tangible objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Words that refer to ideas or concepts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.</p> Signup and view all the answers