Public Speaking Basics
True or False:
"Public speaking has been taught and studied around the world for thousands of years."
What is True?
The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is The Bill of Rights?
True or False:
"Even though there can be gray areas when it comes to assessing a speaker's goals, it is still necessary to ask ethical questions about those goals."
What is True?
It is a type of baked bread made from dough that is commonly shaped into a knot, originally from Germany.
What is Pretzel?
True or False:
"Because listeners recognize that public speakers are promoting their self-interest, it is acceptable for speakers to alter evidence."
What is False?
It is never acceptable for speakers to alter evidence.
It involves adapting to listener feedback, just like an ordinary conversation.
What is public speaking?
The use of language to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or groups.
What is Name-Calling?
Queries that limit respondents to a predefined set of answers—typically "yes/no, or specific, restricted options.
What is Closed Questions?
A very thin type of pancake served with a variety of fillings, originated in Brittany, a region in France, during the 13th century.
What is Crêpe?
Which of the following doesn't violate the speaker's ethical obligation to be honest in what she or he says?
a) juggling statistics
b) quoting out of context
c) citing unusual cases as typical examples
What is None of the Answers?
The messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker.
What is Feedback?
The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
What is Open-ended questions?
A dish originally from Valencia, commonly made of saffron-flavoured rice cooked with meats, seafood, and vegetables.
What is Paella?
The act of using another person's words, ideas, images, or creative work without proper citation, passing them off as one's own
What is Plagiarism?
Audience analysis that focuses on factors such as age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, group membership, and racial, ethnic, or cultural background.
What is Demographic audience analysis?
To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
What is Paraphrase?
Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a spectrum of answers.
What is Scale Questions?
In June 1889 Raffaele Esposito, invented this dish in honor of the Queen of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, with ingredients inspired by the colors of the national flag.
What is Margherita Pizza?
One of the most serious forms of plagiarism in which a person submits an entire work created by someone else as if it were their own, without permission or proper acknowledgment.
What is Global Plagiarism?
Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
What is Audience-centeredness?
Weighing a potential course of action against a set of standards or guidelines.
What is Ethical decisions?
Questions that offer a choice between two or more alternatives.
What is Fixed-alternative questions?
It is a dish consisting of roasted marinated chicken chunks in a spiced creamy and orange-colored gravy, popularized by Indian cooks in Great Britain.
What is Chicken Tikka Masala?
Reproducing someone else’s words exactly as they were originally spoken or written, without changing, adding, or omitting anything—even punctuation and capitalization are preserved.
What is Quoting Verbatim?