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When Sam got up to give his speech in public speaking class, he walked around the audience, high-fiving his classmates and began by saying, "Hey! What up Dawgs?" Which norm regarding the difference between public speaking and conversation did Sam fail to realize?

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the roles of the audience and speaker are clearly defined in public speaking

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A speaker's ability to translate the ideas and images in his or her mind into verbal or nonverbal messages that the audience can understand is termed

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encoding

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The environment or situation in which a speech occurs is known as

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context

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________ is another term for the use of words and symbols to achieve a goal

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Rhetoric

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If you delivered an already famous address of the British orator Edmund Burke, you would be practicing the art of

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declamation

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_________ is the expression of emotion through posture, movement, gestures facial expression, and voice.

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Elocution

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According to the text, one unchanging truth of public speaking is that the core of all you do in public speaking is focus on

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audience

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Some researchers point out that public-speaking apprehension can involve both a ______, a characteristic or general tendency that you may have, and a ________, anxiety triggered by specific incidence of giving a speech to an audience.

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trait, state

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Susan had been planning her speech about owls for an elementary school audience. She had extensive information about their habitats, hunting habits, and prey. She showed graphic pictures of hunting owls to her audience. Many children cried and were frightened by her speech. Susan didn't understand why. What did Susan do wrong?

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Susan failed to know her audience

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Most speakers who procrastinate in preparing their speeches will

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feel more speaker apprehension

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Nervous speakers tend to breathe in which of the following ways?

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tend to take short and shallow breaths

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Why is it especially important to have a clear plan for your speech introduction?

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You are likely to feel the most anxious during the opening moments of your speech

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Kecia was giving a speech on the importance of hospice care to a group of heath care workers. To prepare for her speech, Kecia visited the room where she would speak and set up her office to look like that room while she practiced her speech. What strategy was Kecia using to control her nervousness?

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She made her rehearsal more realistic

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Kobe was quiet, but he was very passionate about his topic-ensuring quality food for his pets. He wanted everyone to know how important this was, and he worked hard to focus on his speech, not how nervous he would be to give it. What strategy was Kobe using?

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focusing on the message and not on the fear

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According to the text, the central focus on public speaking should be

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audience

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Which of the following statements about audience analysis is true?

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It is an ongoing activity that should occur throughout the speechmaking process

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Your ________ is the overarching goal of your speech

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general purpose

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What are the three types of general purposes for speeches?

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persuade, inform, entertain

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Ina speech with a general purpose to _______, you teach, define, illustrate, clarify or elaborate on a topic.

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inform

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A speech with the general purpose to _______ seeks change or reinforces listeners' attitudes, beliefs, values, or behavior.

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persuade

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After-dinner speeches and comic monologues have the general purpose to

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entertain

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A ________ is a concise statement indicating what you want you listeners to be able to do, remember, or feel when you finish a speech.

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Specific purpose

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The _______ is a one-sentence summary of the speech content.

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Central idea

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the key points in a speech are known as

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main ideas

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Every well-prepared speech has three major divisions. What are these three divisions?

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introduction, body, conclusion

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Most public speaking teachers recommend that you prepare your introduction and conclusion

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After organizing the body

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The best way to practice your speech is to rehearse it

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aloud, standing just as you will when you deliver it to your audience

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_________ are the beliefs, values, and moral principles by which we determine what is right or wrong

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ethics

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What must balance the right to free speech?

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the responsibility to speak ethically

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The U.S. Constitution states, "congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech." This is part of the

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first amendment

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In 1989, the Supreme court overturned a statute that made burning the US flag illegal because the Court

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found it to be a "speech act" protected by the First Amendment

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What act, passed one month after 9/11/2001, has been widely criticized by civil rights, free speech, and publishing groups?

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Patriot Act

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Eric wanted to use an excerpt from a Nightline episode, as both an audio/visual aid and a source for his speech. However, one of the guests on the show presented a viewpoint that discredited the premise of Eric's speech. Eric decided he better edit this guest out of the clip before he used it. Was this an ethical use of evidence?

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No; by editing the show, Eric is plagiarizing Nightline, a serious ethical violation

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The use of hypothetical illustrations within a speech are

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acceptable to show what might happen, as long as the speaker is clear that it is hypothetical

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When citing your sources orally in a speech, you should

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state briefly the author, title, and date

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In a speech for breast cancer, you decide to use the latest information from the National Breast Cancer Foundation website, www.nationalbreastcancer.org (http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/). According to your test, which of the following is the best way to cite this source in your speech?

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"A 2011 research study presented on The National Breast Cancer Foundation's website stated..."

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You have been to four classes in one day. In each class, you've listened to a lecture and taken notes. By the time you get to your night class, you feel like you can't take another word. What are you experiencing?

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Information overload

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When you decide that a speaker's message will have no value, even before the speech begins, you are experiencing the listening barrier of

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prejudice

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As a speaker, what can you do to hold your audience's attention and overcome the discrepancy between speech and thought rate?

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You should build in message redundancy and make your major ideas really clear

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One expert has estimated that as much as 93 percent of the emotional content of a speech is conveyed by

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Nonverbal cues

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Krysten just listened to Erin's speech about the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In her written critique, Krysten made the following comments: "I liked the visuals", "weak eye contact," and "the conclusion was good." Is this a good critique?

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No; Krysten should have provided more descriptive information to Erin to reflect the specific strengths and weaknesses of the speech.

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Statistical Information about characteristics of a population such as age, race, gender, education, and religious views is called

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demographics

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Good speakers should ethically use the information gathered in the audience analysis so that their message will be clearly understood by the audience. This process is called

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audience adaption

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The portion of a person's cultural background that relates to a national or religious heritage is known as

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race

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What is ethnocentrism?

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An assumption that one's own culture and cultural perspectives and methods are superior to those of others

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Audience members who place more importance on a speaker's nonverbal cues than the actual words in the message might be from _______ cultures, whereas those placing more emphasis on what is said rather than on nonverbal cues might be form _______ cultures.

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high context, low context

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The perceived importance and influence of a person's income occupation, and education is referred to as

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socioeconomic status

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Trying to determine what an audience believes or thinks about a speech is termed as

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psychological analysis

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In a psychological analysis, the audience's concepts of right and wrong, good and bad are known as

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values

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As a requirement for your biology class, you much attendee a speech by visiting a scholar. At this event you will be a member of what kind of audience

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voluntary or captive audience?

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