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101 Cards in this Set
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What is Communication Apprehension (CA).
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The fear/dread of negative responses you might experience because you speak out.
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What is Public Speaking Anxiety?
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Fear specifically related to speaking in public.
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What is Process Anxiety?
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Fear due to lack of confidence in knowing how to prepare a speech.
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What is Performance Anxiety?
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Fear of forgetting or of presenting your speech poorly.
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What is Communication Competence?
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The ability to communicate appropriately and successfully?
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What is rhetoric?
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The study of persuasion in its various forms, a term often used negatively.
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Define culture.
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The integrated systems of learned beliefs, values, behaviors, and norms that include visible characteristics of a society.
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Define Co-culture.
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Subgroups of culture, characterized by mild or profound cultural diferences, that coexist within the larger culture.
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Define rhetoric sensitivity.
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The ability to adapt to a variety of audieces and settings and to perform appropriately in diverse social situations.
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Defing core cultural resources.
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Beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that provide a logical basis for a culture to define what is necessary, right, doubtful, or forbidden.
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Give an example of a nonexpressive culture.
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Japan.
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What is bicultural?
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Knowing and applying different rules for competent behaviors in two cultures.
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Define Dilogical theory.
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Theory proposing that face-to-face conversation is the prototype that is foundational to all other communication.
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Define speech genres.
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Cultural forms that we rely upon when we participae in a specific type of communication.
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What is the transactional model of communication?
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Model that represents communication as a process in which speakers and listeners work together to create mutual meanings.
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Define canon.
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A set of principles, standards, norms, or guidelines.
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What are canons of rhetoric?
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Principles, standards, romrms, or guidlines for creating and delivering a speech.
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What is a canon of invention?
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Principles for designing a speech that meets a need of a specific audience.
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What is a canon of disposition or arrangement?
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Guidelines for organizing a speech (outlines).
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What is connectiveness?
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Words/ phrases that you use to tie your ideas together.
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What is style in rhetoric?
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Style means kind/type of language.
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What is a canon of style?
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Principles for choosing effective language.
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What is a canon of memory?
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Guidelines to help you remember your ideas.
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What is memorized delivery?
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Not recomended because risky, learning the speech by heart, then reciting it.
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What is manuscript delivery?
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Not recomended, reading a speech.
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What is impromtu delivery?
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Not recommended, avoid spur-of-the moment delivery.
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What is extemporaneous delivery?
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The recommended way of giving a speech. Preparing a speech carefully in advance but choosing the exact wording during the speech itself.
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What is a canon of delivery?
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Rules or standards for preserving your speech.
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What is physiological anxiety?
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Bodily reponses to a perceived threat (increased heart rate, adrenaline rush)
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What is pyschological anxiety?
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Mental stress about a perceived threat.
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What is internal Monologue?
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I-M; self talk.
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What is cognitive modification?
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Identifying negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones.
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What is visualization?
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Rehearsing by using your imagination to envision your speech from start to finish.
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What is habituation?
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Lessining of anxiety when an experience is successfullyrepeated over time.
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What is Ethical Communication?
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The concious decision to speak and listen in ways that you, in light of your culural ideals, consider right, fair, honest, and helpful to others as well as to yourself.
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What is heckling?
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Taunting, insulting, ridiculing, or shouting down another person.
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What is resisting?
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A response to diversity i which you refuse to change and you defend your own positions or attack others.
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What is assimilating?
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Response to diversity in which you surrender some or most of your ways and adopt cultural patterns of another group.
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What is multivocal society?
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A society that actively s seeks expression of a variety of voices or viewpoints.
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What is diliberate fraud?
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Knowing, intentional plagiarism.
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What is cut-and-paste plagiarism?
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Copying material word-for-word and then patching it together without quotation marks or citations.
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What is improper paraphrase?
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Changing some words of a source but keeping the basic sructure and ideas intact without citing it.
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What is accidental plagiarism?
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Plagiarism due to lack of knowledge about the rules.
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What is frabrication?
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Making up information or repeating a rumor without sufficiently checking its accuracy.
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What are cultural allusions?
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References to historical, liteary, and religious sources that are familiar in a specific culture.
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What is stereotyping?
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Placing someone in a category, and then assuming the person fits the characteristics of that category.
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Define prejudiced.
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Having preformed biases or judgments, whether negative or positive.
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What is speech-thought differential?
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The difference between the rate you think (about 500 words per minue) and the rate you speak (about 150 words per minute).
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What is leftover thinking space?
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Another term for the difference between your thinking rate and your speaking rate.
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What are schemas?
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Mental plans or models that guide your perception, interpretation, storage, and recollection of a speech.
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What is comprehensive listening?
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Listening to learn, understand or get information.
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What is critical listening?
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Listening that requires you to reflect and weigh the merits of persuasive messages before you accept them.
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What are loaded questions?
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Questions containing implications intended to put the speaker on the defensive.
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What are closed questions?
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Requests for breif, separate answers. Use them to gain precise information or to verify your understanding.
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What are open questions?
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Requests for more lengthy responses.
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What are clarification questions?
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Requests to clear up confusing ideas. Ask if confussed.
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What are requests for elaboration?
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Questions aksing for more information.
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What is a comment?
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Information from personal experience or research.
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What is audience analysis?
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Identifying audience characteristics to communicate more effectively.
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What is a listening speaker?
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Dialogical speaker who hears audience interests and concerns beore, during, and after a speech.
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Define pedestrian audiences.
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Random, temporary, and accidental auciences who were not intending to hear a speech.
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What are passive audiences?
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Grouops that listen to accomplish other goals.
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What are selected audiences?
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Groups that choose to listen to a slected subject or speaker.
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What is an homogeneous audience?
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Listeners who are similar in attitude.
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What are hostile audiences?
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Listeners who are negative toward the topic or the speaker.
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What are concerted audiences?
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Listeners who are positive toward a topic but don't act; they need motivation and a plan.
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What are organized audiences?
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Motivated listeners who need specific instructions.
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What are absent audiences?
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Intentional listeners separated in distance and time who are reached through various media.
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Give an example of a pedestrian audience.
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A salesman's flashy demo of a food processor, impassioned voice of n activeist in an outdoor forum, or the humorous stories or sidewalk entertainer.
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Give an example of a passive audience.
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Speech classes; listeners are there for grade not interest.
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Give an example of a organized audience.
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"how to" speeches
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Give an example of an absent audience.
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Listeners through the radio, telephone calls, television, the Internet, etc. Audience is separated from speaker.
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What is demographic audience analysis?
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Identifying audiences by populations they represent, such as age or ethnicity.
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What is a salient group?
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A group that is more significant or relevent.
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What is ethnicity?
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Heritage and cultural traditions usually stemming from national and religious backrounds.
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What are behavioral effects?
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Influences on audience actions.
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Give another wynonym for thesis statement.
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A central idea.
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Define delivery.
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How you perform your speech or how you present your words and ideas.
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Define impression monagement.
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Self-presentation, using the metaphor of a staged drama in which we use props and personal mannerism to create and maintain impressions of ourselves.
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When you present verbal and nonverbal mesages that you actually believe, you are _______.
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Sincere.
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If you intentionally choose to create false or misleading impressions, you are being _________.
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Cynical.
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________ are gestures that stand in the place for words or ideas.
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Emblems.
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Give an example of an emblem.
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A head nod means yes.
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________ are gestures that add emphasisi to or illustrate verbal messages.
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Illustrators.
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Define affect display.
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Showing emotion through bodily movement.
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______ are bodily movements that manage or help mediate interactions.
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Regulators.
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________ are gestures that betray stress or fear.
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Adapters.
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Define self-adapters.
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Nervously touching yourself (like biting your lips) when you're stressed.
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Define Object Objectors.
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Nervously touching or playing with items like pens or jewelry.
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Define After adapters.
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Gestures, like folding your arms protectively, that betray nervousness about the audience.
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What is articulation?
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The way you enunciate or say specific sounds.
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What are vocal variations?
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Changes in volume, rate, nd pitch that combine to create impressions of the speaker.
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What are unfilled pauses?
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Silent pauses.
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What are filled (vocalized) pauses?
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Saying um or uh or other sounds during a pause
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Define homo narrans.
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A Latin phrase that identifies humans as storytelling animals.
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Define Applied Storytelling.
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Using stories for practical purposes, not just for entertainment.
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What is constructed dialogue?
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Created conversation that adds realism to a story.
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Define exemplum.
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An organizational pattern in which a narrative is used to illustrate a quotation.
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Define coherence.
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Deciding if a narrative is understandable or sensible.
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What is narrative fidelity.
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Testing if the narative faithfully represents how the world works.
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What is narrative merit.
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Testing whether or not a narrative is worth telling.
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