Vocab
Public Speaking
Mass Comm.
Listening
Random
100
This is the form of communication that occurs in a straight line from sender to receiver and meant to inform.
What is one way communication?
100
This is a figure of speech that makes a reference to a representation of people, places, or things.
What is allusion?
100
This is a type of reasoning that constructs or evaluates general propositions that are derived from specific examples
What is Inductive Reasoning?
100
This is the psychological act of internal contextual contemplation of sound waves.
What is listening?
100
A technique used in propaganda to attack the opponent him or herself rather than their arguments.
What is ad hominem?
200
This is form of Communication where both parties are involved in the exchange of information.
What is Two-Way Communication?
200
A figure of speech where there is repetition of a particular sound in a series of words
What is alliteration?
200
This is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements to reach a logically certain conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
200
This is the act of perceiving sound through vibrations.
What is hearing?
200
A figure of speech that is a gross exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
This is a form of noise that exists solely in the mind of an Individual.
What is Internal Noise?
300
A figure of speech gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
300
This is an informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence.
What is Hasty Generalization?
300
These are habits that impede or reduce the effectiveness of one's ability to listen.
What are bad listening habits?
300
This is the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) cues between people.
What is nonverbal communication?
400
An obvious or self-evident claim hardly worth mentioning.
What are Truisms?
400
This is type of a question that does not need a response but rather makes an argument
What is Rhetorical Question?
400
This fallacy is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument or syllogism.
What is false premises?
400
This is a form of communication that requires the listener to respond to the speaker.
What is active listening?
400
These are the are the quantifiable statistics of a given population (audience).
What are demographics?
500
This is the art of speaking which contains three critical skills.
What is Rhetoric?
500
The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences
What is antithesis?
500
A fallacy that shifts the focus of a question to an unrelated argument.
What is Ignoring the Question?
500
This is an ancient civilization once occupying modern day Iraq where the earliest known origins of Rhetoric were found.
What is mesopotamia?
500
This fallacy occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood.
What is misuse of numbers?
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