Chapter 4 - Overcoming Barriers to Effective Listening
Chapter 7 - Gathering and Using Supporting Material
Chapter 10 - Speaker Language and Style
Chapter 13 - Speaking to Inform
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___ is analyzing information to judge its accuracy and relevance.
What is critical thinking
100
Listening is the process by which receivers select, attend to, ___, remember, and respond to senders' messages.
What is understand
100
___ is an advanced Web-searching technique that allows a user to narrow a subject or key word search by adding various requirements.
What is Boolean search
100
___ places a key word at the end of a phrase or sentence.
What is suspension
100
What is the art and science of teaching adults?
What is andragogy
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___ is the expression of emotion through posture, movement, gesture, facial expression, and voice
What is elocution
200
To address this barrier to effective listening, a speaker could use a startling story or fact to "wake up" the audience.
What are personal concerns
200
"There are plenty of fish in the sea" and "like a fish out of water" are both examples of a ___.
What is figurative analogy
200
Memorable word structures can be crafted using figurative imagery, drama, or ___.
What is cadence
200
In a speech, a good story incorporates action, humor, conflict, and ___.
What is suspense
300
Name two reasons why people study public speaking.
What are employment and empowerment
300
A good listener listens ethically, skillfully, with both eyes and ears, and ___.
What is mindfully
300
Although easily accessible and often memorable and impactful, ___ should be used sparingly in speeches.
What are literary quotations
300
An oral communication style is less formal, more repetitive, and ___ than a written communication style.
What is more personal
300
To enhance audience recall, a speaker should build in redundancy, keep ideas short and simple, pace the flow of information, and ___.
What is reinforce key ideas
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Name the three models that can help us understand the communication process
What are communication as action, interaction, and transaction
400
This person described rhetoric as a "symbolic means of inducing cooperation"
Who is Kenneth Burke
400
When citing an academic journal article in an APA references page, what two pieces of information are always italicized?
What are journal name and issue number
400
"She sells seashells by the seashore" is an example of what memorable word structure?
What is alliteration
400
Informative speeches are often the first experience speakers have with orally citing sources. Name three pieces of information commonly used in oral citations.
What are author, title, and date of publication
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At the beginning of his speech, Bob noticed his heart was beating very quickly, but it slowed down as his speech went on. Bob most likely has what style of communication apprehension?
What is confrontational
500
At the end of her speech on the importance of recycling, Michelle asks her audience to please begin recycling their bottles and other products, in order to help save the environment. Michelle is appealing to what type of listener in the audience?
What is task-oriented
500
While researching for his speech, Spencer finds a web site that looks legitimate, but soon realizes that a lot of the site's content condemns people of varying ethnic groups. Spencer has evaluated this site using which criteria?
What is diversity
500
To a biologist, the word "pica" refers to an abnormal appetite for earthy substances, while to a matador, "pica" refers to the lance used by one of the picadors to jab the bull. In this example, "pica" is an example of what type of language?
What is jargon
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If Danny is giving a speech on how people can use a smartphone or smart watch to meet their fitness goals, then he is giving this type of informative speech.