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55 Cards in this Set
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What is a single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his or her speech
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specific purpose statement
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What is the broad goal of a speech
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general purpose
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What is a one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of a speech
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thesis statement
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What is what a speaker wants the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech
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residual message
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When your general purpose is to inform, what is your goal
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to convey information clearly, accurately, and interestingly
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When your general purpose is to persuade, what is your goal
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to change or structure the attitude or actions of your audience
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What are tips for purpose statements
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1. full infinitive phrases, not fragments.
2. statement, not question. 3. avoid figurative lang. 4. limit to one idea. 5. not too vague or general. |
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What are questions to check your specific purpose
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1. meet the assignment?
2. accomplish it in allotted time? 3. relevant to audience? 4. too trivial for audience? 5. too technical for audience? |
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Have you read the chapter summaries yet?
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probably not, please remember to do so.
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What is the difference between listening and hearing?
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Hearing is simply the vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain. Listening is paying close attention to and making sense of what we hear.
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What is appreciative listening
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listening for pleasure or enjoyment
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What is empathic listening
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listening to provide emotion support for a speaker
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What is comprehensive listening
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listening to understand the message of a speaker
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what is critical listening
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listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting or rejecting it
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What are the components of the speech communication process?
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speaker, message, channel, listener, feedback, interference, and situation.
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What is the speaker
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the person who is presenting an oral message to a listener
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What is a message
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whatever a speaker communciates to someone else
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What is a channel
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the means by which a message is communicated
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What is a listener
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the person who receives the speaker's message
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What is the frame of reference
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the sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
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What is feedback
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the messages usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker
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what is interference
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anything that impedes the communication of a message
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What are the two types of interference
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1. external-anything external to the audience such as traffic
2. internal- comes from within the audience such as worry about a test |
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What are the 3 types of plagiarism
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1. Global--stealing an entire speech
2. Patchwork--stealing from 2 or 3 sources 3. Incremental--failing to give credit 4. Paraphrases--restating an author's ideas in your own words |
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What is situation
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the time and place in which speech communication occurs
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What is inclusive language and its application
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Language that does not stereotype, demean, or patronize people on the basis of gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or other factors.
Application--Correcting language so that it is respectful of our audience. Avoid gender, unneccessary personal traits, group names (such as Asian instead of Chinese Americans) |
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What is critical thinking
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focused organized thinking about such things as the logical relattionships among ideas, the soundness of evidence and the differences between fact and opinion.
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What is egocentrism and examples
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the tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-bring.
Speeches that are important to the audience and speak about something in their life |
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What is ethnocentrism and example
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The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
How we think that our values, beliefs, and custom are "right and normal" while all others are "unnatural and wrong" |
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Have you gotten a scantron yet?
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Hopefully so, but if not, go buy the AU bookstore.
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What are the 2 functions of a conculsion
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1. to let the audience know you are ending your speech
2. to reinforce the central idea p.s. be able to identify this |
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What are the components of a sucessful intro and conculsion?
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I do not know--email ms stull
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What are the functions of an introduction
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1. get the attention and interest
2. reveal the topic 3. establish the credibility and goodwill 4. preview the body of the speech |
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What is the difference of connotative and denotative meaning
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The denotative meaning is the literal or dictionary, while the connotative is the meaning suggested by the associations or emotions triggered by a word or phrase.
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What are the guidelines for ethical listening
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1. be courteous and attentive
2. avoid prejudgin the speaker 3. maintain the free and open expression of ideas p.s. be able to identify |
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What are the guidelines of ethical speaking
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1. make sure your goals are ethically sound
2. be fully prepared 3. be honest 4. avoid name-calling or other forms of abusive lang. 5. ethics! p.s. be able to identify |
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What is abusive language
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name-calling; to deframe, demean, or degrade individuals or groups
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What is a crescendo ending and identify
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a conclusion in which the speech builds to a senith or power and intensity
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What is a dissolve ending and identify
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a conclusion that generates emotion appeal by fading step-by-step to a dramatic final statement
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What are the 4 connectives and identify them
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1. transitions
2. internal preview 3. internal summaries 4. signposts (similiar to transitions but might use numbers and more personal statements such as be sure to keep this in mind |
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What are the types of organizations and identify them
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1. Chronological --to inform
2. Spatial (directional)--to inform 3. Casual (cause and effect)--to inform or persuade 4. Problem-solution --to persuade 5. Topical order --to inform or persuade |
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What is the difference of concrete and abstact words
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concrete refer to tangible objects while abstract refer to ideas or concepts.
concrete words make a speech clearer and easier to recall |
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What are vocalized pauses and examples
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A pause that occurs when a speaker fills the silence between words with vocalization such as uh, er, and em
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What is audience-centerness
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keeping the audience foremost in mind at ever step of speech preparation and presentation--become better at this by adapting to connect to their goals, beliefs, etc.
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What are the types of delivery and identify
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1. manuscript
2. memory 3. impromptu 4. extemporaneously (use notecards) |
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What is Dialect?
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a variety of a language distinguished by variations of accent, grammar, or vocab
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What is pronunciation and identify
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the accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language
arctic is arc-tic not ar-tic |
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What is articulation and identify
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the physical production of particular speech sounds
ought to is not otta |
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What are the types of audience analysis and what do they require
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1. Demographic--age, gender, sex, racial/ethic/cultural background, religion, group membership
2. situational--size, physical setting, dispotion toward: topic, speakor or occasion |
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What are the causes of poor listening and identify
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1. not concentrating
2. listening too hard 3. jumping to conclusions 4. focusing on delivery and personal appearance |
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What is parallelism
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The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words, phrases, or sentences
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What is repetition
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reiteration of the same word or set of words at the beginning or end of successive clauses or sentences
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What is alliteration
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repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words
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What is antithesis
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the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure
(ask NOT what you can do, but what you can do) |
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what is a metaphor
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a comparison not using like or as (a simile uses like or as)
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