Speech Final

Front 1

A well-worded specific goal statement should always contain three central ideas.

Back 1

False

Front 2

Knowledge, experience, and education that qualify you to speak with authority on a subject are called credentials.

Back 2

True

Front 3

Encyclopedias are excellent sources of facts about and interpretations of both contemporary and historical facts.

Back 3

False

Front 4

Primary research is much more labor intensive and costly than secondary research.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Footnotes can be written or oral.

Back 5

False

Front 6

A ____ is a broad area of expertise about something such as movies, cognitive psychology, or computer technology.

Back 6

Subject

Front 7

Demographic information of an audience member includes ____.

Back 7

Occupation, Income, Education, Gender & Age, Race & Language, Ethnicity & Religion.

Front 8

Each of the following questions should be asked about the speech setting to help with speech planning beforehand EXCEPT _____.

Back 8

Will a meal be served before the speech?

Front 9

Although ______ are excellent sources of in-depth material about a topic, most.of the information is likely to be at least two years old at the time of publishing.

Back 9

Books

Front 10

When presenting information in a speech that you've learned from a secondary source, it is crucial to ______ or you could be accused of ______.

Back 10

Cite sources; Plagiarism

Front 11

A speech should always be organized according to sequential order.

Back 11

True

Front 12

A direct question seeks a mental response from the audience, whereas a rhetorical question demands an overt response from the audience.

Back 12

False

Front 13

A clincher is a restatement of your speech's goal and summary of the main points.

Back 13

False

Front 14

If your speech is particularly short in length, would it be appropriate to list your sources alphabetically, by authors' last name.

Back 14

True

Front 15

A plot, characters, and settings to dramatize the thesis are used in which organizational pattern?

Back 15

Narrative Order

Front 16

Which of the following is NOT a technique used to get your audience's attention?

Back 16

Signposts

Front 17

____ is used in a speech when the main points are the rationale or proof that support the thesis.

Back 17

Logical Reasons Order

Front 18

In the conclusion of a speech, you should

Back 18

Summarize the Main Points

Front 19

I'm the final review of the outline before you move into adaptation and rehearsal, you should ask yourself all of these questions EXCEPT

Back 19

Do main points and major subdivisions each contain multiple ideas to hold the audience's attention?

Front 20

In the final review of the outline before you move into adaptation and rehearsal, you should ask yourself all these questions EXCEPT

Back 20

Do main points and major subdivisions each contain multiple ideas to hold the audience's attention?

Front 21

Startling statements, rhetorical questions, quotations, and personal references can all be used to

Back 21

Gain your audience's attention in the introduction

Front 22

Startling statements, rhetorical questions, quotations, and personal references can all be used to ____.

Back 22

Gain your audience's attention in the introduction.

Front 23

The skill of adapting involves both verbally and visually adapting by preparing presentational aids that facilitate audience understanding.

Back 23

True

Front 24

The skill of adapting involves both verbally and visually adapting by preparing presentational aids that facilitate audience understanding.

Back 24

True

Front 25

In order to be timely, you must adapt the information in the speech so that the audience members view it as important to them.

Back 25

False

Front 26

In order to be timely, must adapt the information in the speech so that the audience members view it as important to them.

Back 26

False

Front 27

People assess others' knowledge by judging their character and their motives.

Back 27

False

Front 28

Considering how to demonstrate your character is an important aspect to planning to speech.

Back 28

True

Front 29

When speaking in a second language, extra care must be taken in speech preparation because audience members are not likely to tolerate your mistakes.

Back 29

False

Front 30

When choosing the supporting material for your speech, it's important to select materials that demonstrates how the speech ____.

Back 30

Accomplishes all these things.

Front 31

A speech that includes information about the audience's neighborhood out town is establishing

Back 31

Proximity

Front 32

Which is NOT one of the five guidelines that can aid in adapting the information of your speech so that the audience can more easily understand it?

Back 32

Using technical language where necessary.

Front 33

Kolb's Cycle of Learning conceptualize learning style preferences along four dimensions. They are

Back 33

Feeling, Watching, Thinking, and Doing.

Front 34

In a speech about a group of children who suffer from a rare congenital heart defect, which of the following presentational aids would be the most effective?

Back 34

A diagram

Front 35

The symptoms of public speaking apprehension can be physical, emotional, or cognitive.

Back 35

True

Front 36

Years of study have shown that being nervous or in a state of tension can help you do your best.

Back 36

True

Front 37

Cognitive restructuring is transferring the calm feelings we attain while visualizing to the actual speaking event.

Back 37

False

Front 38

A pause is the total lack of vocal expressiveness.

Back 38

False

Front 39

You should show a visual aid when talking about it.

Back 39

True

Front 40

How your voice sounds depends on its

Back 40

Pitch, Volume, Rate, and Quality.

Front 41

The position or bearing of your body while giving a speech is called

Back 41

Posture

Front 42

The hallmark of a conversational style is

Back 42

Spontaneity

Front 43

Speeches that are researched and planned ahead of time, although the exact wording is not scripted and will vary from presentation to presentation, are called

Back 43

Extemporaneuos

Front 44

When handling your presentational aids, what it's the most important thing to consider?

Back 44

That you practice repeatedly the handling of your aid

Front 45

Creativity is the result of hard work, not a gift that some people have and some don't.

Back 45

True

Front 46

An acronym is a system of improving memory by using formulas.

Back 46

False

Front 47

Narrations are only presented in the first- or second person voice.

Back 47

False

Front 48

The goal of an expository speech is to demonstrate how something is done or made, or how it works.

Back 48

False

Front 49

Lengthy expository speeches are better known as lectures.

Back 49

True

Front 50

The characteristics of effective informative speaking include all but the following:

Back 50

Sensitive

Front 51

_____ thinking occurs when we contemplate something from many different perspectives.

Back 51

Productive

Front 52

You can use visual aids, repetition, transitions, humor, and memory aids to

Back 52

Highlight important information that you want your audience to remember.

Front 53

Of the four ways to define a word or idea, which does your text quote as the quickest?

Back 53

Using a synonym

Front 54

All the following should be considered frameworks of an expository speech EXCEPT

Back 54

Believing in what you are presenting

Front 55

If your audience is very much opposed to your goal, you should aim to change their attitude from "opposed" to "in favor" by the end of speech.

Back 55

False

Front 56

A proposition of value is a statement designed to convince your audience that they should take a specific course of action.

Back 56

False

Front 57

When dealing with a hostile audience, you should attempt to move them only a small degree in your direction.

Back 57

True

Front 58

An argument is the logical relationship between the proposition and the reasons or between the reasons and the evidence.

Back 58

True

Front 59

The statement of reasons pattern attempts to prove propositions of fact by presenting the best-supported reasons in a meaningful order, placing the strongest reason first because audience will find it most persuasive.

Back 59

False

Front 60

You are arguing by _____ when you cite evidence that one or more events always brings about, leads to, creates, or prevents a predictable event or set of effects.

Back 60

Causation

Front 61

Which of the following five common errors in reasoning occurs when the alleged cause falls to be related to or to produce the effect?

Back 61

False cause

Front 62

Speakers demonstrate ____ by showing the audience that they understand and emphasize with them.

Back 62

Emotional appeals

Front 63

The _____ pattern is a form off persuasive organization used for arguing a proposition of value when the goal is to prove that something has more value than something else.

Back 63

Comparative advantages