Speech Midterm – Flashcards
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The process of conveying a message to an audience, small or large.
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Public speaking
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Public speaking is ________ prepared than conversation
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Public speaking is ________ formal than conversation
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Public speaking involves ________ clearly defined roles for the speaker and audience than conversation
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The ability to speak with competence and confidence will provide ___________;
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Empowerment
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To be able to listen and analyze information and judge is accuracy and relevance; also an empowering resource that is developed from speaking publicly
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Critical thinking
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Two things one gains from studying public speaking:
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Empowerment and employment
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The public speaker is the ______ of information and ideas for an audience
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Source
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The job of the source is to _______ or translate
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Encode
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Verbal or non verbal symbols are a _____ between the audience and speaker
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Code
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Two channels a message can be received
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Visual or auditory
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The audience is the _______ and they decode the message
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Receiver
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The _______ of a public speaking experience is the environment or situation it occurs
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Context
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The ________ is the speech
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Message
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To tame anxiety, you can ________ it
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Rename
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You are going to feel _______ nervous than you look
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You ______ make anxiety go away
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Can't
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Public speakers feel the most nervous right _______ their speech
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Before
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Several reasons as well as _________ traits can cause anxiety
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Genetic
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The overarching goal of your speech; to inform, persuade, or entertain
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General purpose
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Speaking to _______ is to teach, define, or clarify on a topic ; class lectures, seminars, etc
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Inform
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Speaking to __________ is to change or reinforce attitudes, beliefs, or behavior on the audience; tv ads, sermons, political speeches, sales reps
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Persuade
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Speaking to ___________ are after dinner speeches, and comic monologues
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Entertain
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A concise statement indicating what you want your audience to be able to do, remember, or feel after listening to your speech; "By the end of my speech the audience will [be able to]..."
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Specific purpose
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The part of a speech that identifies the essence of your message; one sentence summary of speech
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Central idea
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The major divisions of your speech; key points
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Main ideas
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Classical rhetoricians called the process of developing an orderly speech, __________
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Disposition
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The ________ helps capture attention, serves as an overview of the speech, and provides your audience with reasons to listen to you
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Introduction
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The _____ presents the main content of your speech
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Body
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The __________ summarizes your key ideas
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Conclusion
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The beliefs, values, and moral principles by which we determine what is right and what is wrong
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Ethics
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The speaker's believability
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Credibility
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Greek rhetorician Aristotle used the term ________
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Ethos
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Sensitivity to differences and willingness to listen to opposing viewpoints and learn about different values and beliefs
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Accommodation
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Stealing ideas
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Plagiarizing
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Lacing a speech with completing phrases that you find in a source you did not credit
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Patchwriting
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First stage of listening; to single out a message from several competing messages
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Select
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Second stage of listening; to focus on the message
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Attend
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Third stage of listening; making sense of experiences
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Understand
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Fourth stage of listening; to recall ideas and information
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Remember
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The fifth (last) stage of listening; reacting with behavior to what you have heard
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Repsond
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Theory that explains why we sometimes just don't listen well
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Working memory theory of listening
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________ listeners are mentally focused on the listening task
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Mindful
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Listening for ________ is listening just for the fun of it; watching tv, music, movies
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Pleasure
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Listening to ___________ is listening to feel what the speaker is feeling; may be one-on-one
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Empathize
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Listening to _________ is to make a judgement about the content of the speech
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Evaluate
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Listening for _________ is to listen to learn something
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Information
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You're a ________-___________ listener if you are comfortable listening to people express feelings and emotions
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Relational oriented
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You're a _______-________ listener if you want people to get to the point; prefer to be given evidence to support recommendations for action
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Task oriented
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____________ listeners prefer to listen to complex information that is laced with facts and details; these listeners reject messages because they don't have adequate evidence to support the conclusions; don't like rambling stories
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Analytical
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Information that has been proven true by direct observation
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Facts
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A conclusion based on partial information or an evaluation that has not been directly observed
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Inference
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Consists of facts, examples, opinions, and statistics that a speaker can use to support a conclusion
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Evidence
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A formal system of rules applied to reach a rational conclusion
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Logic
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The prices of drawing a conclusion from evidence within the logical framework of the arguments
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Reasoning
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The process of using a method or standards to evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of messages
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Rhetorical criticism
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The process of using symbols to create meaning to achieve a goal
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Rhetoric
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Words, images, nonverbal cues, that create meaning
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Symbols
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_____________ strategies are method and techniques that speakers employ to achieve their speaking goals
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Rhetorical
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Statistical information about characteristics such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, education level, and religious views
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Demographics
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An assumption that your own cultural approaches are superior to those of other cultures
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Ethnocentrism
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Reflects likes or dislikes
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Attitude
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What you hold to be true or false
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Belief
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An enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong
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Value
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A statement of your central idea plus a preview of your main ideas
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Blueprint
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The internet's primary delivery system; the tools for assessing it; and some of the amazing types of info available can help to make your research more productive
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World wide web
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________ search engine is a web site that indexes World Wide Web information in a specific field and can help you narrow your search
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Vertical
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________ search allows you to enclose phrases in quotation marks or parenthesis so that a search yields those exact phrases
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Boolean
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Provide access to bibliographic information, abstracts, and full texts for a variety of resources, including periodicals, newspapers, government documents, and even books
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Online databases
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Libraries' collections of books
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Stacks
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A story or anecdote that almost always guarantees audience attention
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Illustration
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An unelaborated example that is often no longer than a sentence or two
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Brief illustration
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Resembles a story; vividly descriptive
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Extended illustration
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Provides the details that allow audience members to develop mental images
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Description
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A statement that makes clear how something is done or why it exists
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Explanation
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Suggests that you discuss your most important of convincing point first in your speech
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Primacy
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Suggests that you discuss your most important convincing point last in your speech
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Recency
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Suggest that you organize you main ideas from simple to more complex
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Complexity
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_________ organization is arranging ideas according to their location or direction
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Spatial
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Organization according to primacy, recency, or complexity
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Topical
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Organization by time or sequence
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Chronological
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A statement of what the main ideas of the speech will be
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Initial preview
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Organizational cues for your audience's ears
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Signposts
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A statement of what is to come
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Preview
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Introduced and outlines ideas that will be developed as the speech progresses
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Internal preview
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A summary that occurs within the body of a speech
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Internal summary
