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General Vocabulary
Listening
Self-Concept
Mass Communication
Public Speaking
100
This is the exchange of information or news.
What is communication?
100
This is changing the wording of a message to avoid plagiarism or make the message more understandable.
What is paraphrasing?
100
This is looking in the mirror and telling yourself that you look good.
What is building self esteem?
100
This is a logical fallacy made by reaching a faulty conclusion based on insufficient evidence.
What is hasty generalization?
100
These are online sites where credible information is located.
What are online databases?
200
These are the three types of rhetorical persuasion.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
200
These are appreciative, discriminative, emphatic, and critical.
What are kinds of listening?
200
This is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.
What is self fulfilling prophecy?
200
This is a widely held oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What is a stereotype?
200
This is a rhetorical device that exaggerates a statement or claim, not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This is persuasive speaking or writing
What is rhetoric?
300
These include tuning out, faking attention, distractions, criticizing, overreacting, jumping to conclusions, and interrupting
What are bad listening habits?
300
This is transmission of a message without a response.
What is one-way communication?
300
This is material designed to distort the truth or deceive the audience.
What is propaganda?
300
The following sentence uses this rhetorical device: "Jimmy was riding his bike, eating ice cream, and singing a song."
What is parallel structure?
400
This is the term for factors inside the brain that interfere with communication.
What is internal noise?
400
This is automatic reception of sound by the senses
What is hearing?
400
This is an internal thought.
What is intrapersonal communication?
400
This is reasoning from general principles to specific facts.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
This is a reference to a well-known work.
What is an allusion?
500
These are statements that are obviously true
What are truisms?
500
This is making an effort to hear and process a message.
What is listening?
500
The ability to become aware of something through the senses.
What is perception?
500
This is an argument that assumes whatever argument is trying to be proven is already true.
What is begging the question?
500
This is a contrasting of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words, phrases, etc.
What is antithesis?