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Course Introduction
Speech Communication is an introductory course that explores the principles and techniques of effective oral communication in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal, group, and public speaking settings. Students will develop skills in organizing and delivering speeches, utilizing nonverbal communication, listening actively, and adapting messages to diverse audiences. The course also emphasizes critical thinking, ethical communication, and strategies for overcoming communication anxiety, helping learners become more confident and competent speakers in academic, professional, and social environments.
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Public Speaking An Audience Centered Approach 9th Edition by Steven A. Beebe
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Chapter 1: Speaking With Confidence
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Q1) During the first day of class speech presentations,Dwayne had a bad sinus infection and his ears were plugged so he couldn't hear the speakers.He was experiencing _____ noise.
A)anatomical
B)physiological
C)psychological
D)external
Answer: B
Q2) People in conversation may alternately talk and listen,and don't interrupt one another,but in public speaking the roles of speaker and audience aren't as clearly defined.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The ancient Romans identified five classical canons,or elements of preparing and presenting a speech including the element of ______ which relates to how the speech is organized.
Answer: arrangement
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Chapter 2: Presenting Your First Speech
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Q1) What does it mean to be audience-centered?
Answer: Being audience-centered involves making decisions about the content and delivery of your speech before you speak,based on awareness of your audience's values, beliefs,and knowledge.It also means being aware of your audience's responses during the speech so that you can make appropriate adjustments.
Q2) Your general purpose is the overarching goal of your speech.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What are the three types of general purposes for speeches?
A)to inform,to persuade,to entertain
B)to entertain,to inspire,to elaborate
C)to elucidate,to elaborate,to entertain
D)to persuade,to elaborate,to convince
Answer: A
Q4) Supporting material should be personal and concrete,and it should appeal to your listeners' senses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Speaking Freely and Ethically
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Q1) _____ are the beliefs,values,and moral principles by which people determine what is right or wrong.
Answer: Ethics
Q2) As the boundaries of free speech expand,the importance of ethical speech decreases.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The student who refuses to cheat on a test,the employee who will not call in sick to gain an extra day of vacation,and the property owner who does not claim more storm damage than she actually suffered have all made choices based on ethics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) _____ is sensitivity to the feelings,needs,interests,and backgrounds of other people. Answer: Accommodation
Q5) _____ is speech that is responsible,honest,and tolerant. Answer: Ethical speech
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Chapter 4: Listening to Speeches
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Q1) Lafayette is extremely comfortable listening to others express feelings and emotions.Lafayette is a ______ listener.
A)relational-oriented B)task-oriented
C)critical D)analytical
Q2) When we,as listeners,focus on the message,we are said to A)attend.
B)understand.
C)select. D)remember.
Q3) Most people talk at a rate of ______ words a minute,while most people can listen at a rate of ______ words a minute.
A)700 to 1200;125
B)500;1000
C)125;700 to 1200
D)1000;500
Q4) When you prejudge a message,your ability to understand it increases. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Analyzing Your Audience
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Q1) Explain the difference between an attitude,a belief,and a value and provide an example of each.
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE of an attentive audience?
A)Attentive audiences often have a faint,frozen smile.
B)An attentive audience moves often to demonstrate interest.
C)An attentive audience doesn't move much.
D)An attentive audience never expresses nonverbal disagreement.
Q3) Collecting information about an audience concerning their age range,gender,and ethnicity is part of a _____ analysis.
A)situational
B)demographic
C)diversity
D)psychological
Q4) A speaker who gathers information about the listeners,analyzes this information,and adapts his or her speech to them is demonstrating the idea of a(n)
A)hard-working speaker.
B)audience-centered speaker.
C)over-zealous speaker.
D)goal-centered speaker.
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Chapter 6: Developing Your Speech
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Q1) "Deforestation by lumber interests and toxic-waste dumping are major environmental problems in the United States today." What is wrong with this central idea?
A)It is not audience-centered.
B)It contains more than one idea.
C)It is too vague.
D)It is not a declarative sentence.
Q2) The central idea for Janelle's speech on the importance of using sunscreen does not break down into logical divisions.Rather than forget this topic and try to find one that divides more logically,what does your text suggest that Janelle do?
A)find a chronological pattern for the main ideas
B)establish reasons why her central idea is true
C)create only one main point
D)find new supporting material on the topic and start again
Q3) Once you have generated your main ideas,you can add a preview of those main ideas to your central idea to produce a _____ for your speech.
Q4) The central idea should be a single idea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Gathering and Using Supporting Material
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Q1) In his speech about drinking and driving,David told the story of what happened to three of his friends.He went into detail about how they had been partying,how they wouldn't let anyone sober drive them home,and how their lives ended when the car they were in wrapped around a tree in the middle of the night.What kind of supporting material did David use in his speech?
A)a brief illustration
B)an extended illustration
C)a statistic
D)expert testimony
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE of a figurative analogy?
A)It is considered hard evidence.
B)It is a comparison of things that are actually similar.
C)It is not usually used in speeches.
D)It is often in the form of a metaphor or simile.
Q3) Before you decide whether an interview is necessary,you should be sure that your questions cannot be answered easily by looking at a Web site or reading a newspaper article or a book.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why should a speaker use multiple brief illustrations?
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Chapter 8: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech
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Q1) Throughout John's speech on the environment,he reviewed and re-emphasized points previously discussed.What is the textbook term for this technique?
A)internal summary
B)conclusion
C)preview
D)external summary
Q2) In your preparation outline,your specific purpose should be
A)included in the outline itself.
B)written at the top.
C)written at the bottom.
D)included in the works cited page.
Q3) If a speech is organized to identify a situation and then discuss the impact of that situation,the speaker has used a _____ pattern.
A)topical
B)chronological
C)cause-and-effect
D)spatial
Q4) _____ organization is based on location or position.
Q5) _____ organization is by time or sequence.
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Chapter 9: Introducing and Concluding Your Speech
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Q1) In an introduction,you may ask a question that doesn't require a response but makes the audience think about your topic.This is a(n)______ question.
A)rhetorical
B)ambiguous
C)hypothetical
D)unanswerable
Q2) A signpost that enumerates the ideas and points that will be presented in a speech is known as
A)a summary.
B)a specific purpose.
C)a preview.
D)an emphasis statement.
Q3) Provide several examples of verbal and nonverbal cues that can be used to signal the end of a speech.
Q4) A _____ question is intended to provoke a thought rather than elicit an answer.
Q5) You can help establish listening motivation by showing the members of your audience how the topic affects them directly.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Using Words Well: Speaker Language and Style
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Q1) When Reverend Jesse Jackson says,"We must relate instead of debate;we must inspire instead of retire;and we must repair instead of despair," what linguistic device is he using?
A)metaphor
B)omission
C)parallelism
D)inversion
Q2) You should eliminate phrases that add no meaning to your message.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When using stylistic devices in your speech,you should use them
A)abundantly.
B)throughout the entire speech.
C)only in the introduction.
D)to economize.
Q4) What are the major differences between oral and written language styles?
Q5) In language style,a sentence that uses ______ has two parts with parallel structures but contrasting meanings.
Q6) A _____ is a comparison between two things that uses the word like or as.
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Q7) _____ is language used by speakers during momentous or overwhelming times.
Chapter 11: Delivering Your Speech
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Q1) Behaviors such as eye contact,appropriate gestures,and physical closeness that enhance the quality of the relationship between the speaker and listeners are known as _____ behaviors.
A)denotative
B)immediacy
C)delivery
D)concurrence
Q2) The most important aspect of speech delivery in North America is eye contact.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a speaker delivers a speech word for word from memory without using notes,he/she is practicing _____ speaking.
Q4) We usually believe verbal messages because they are more difficult to fake.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Audience members from ______ tend to expect less immediacy.
A)the United States
B)Canada
C)Japan
D)Mexico
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Chapter 12: Using Presentation Aids
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of an audiovisual aid?
A)an overhead projection of a picture of the human heart
B)a YouTube clip of a doctor performing open heart surgery
C)a line graph displaying statistical information about the prevalence of heart disease in the United States over the past 30 years
D)a life-size replica of the human heart
Q2) A presentation aid that displays information in the form of words,numbers,or images is a
A)graph.
B)visual.
C)chart.
D)transparency.
Q3) You should not select a presentation aid until you have
A)decided on the purpose of your speech.
B)practiced your speech several times.
C)developed your speaking notes.
D)perfected your nonverbal delivery.
Q4) What are some of the advantages of using charts as presentation aids?
Q5) A _____ is anything tangible that helps communicate an idea to an audience.
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Q6) List the nine guidelines for using presentation aids.
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Chapter 13: Speaking to Inform
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Q1) "Three reasons Lewis wrote the Narnia stories are to connect the 'pictures' he visualized in his head,to write an engaging story for children,and to make a larger point about Christianity." This statement is an example of a ______ in an informative speech.
A)subpoint
B)central idea
C)general purpose
D)specific behavioral purpose
Q2) When you describe,you provide more detail than you do when just defining something.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a speech about an object?
A)a speech about planting an organic garden
B)a speech about vintage clothing
C)a speech about legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page
D)a speech about Jungian psychology
Q4) A good story includes conflict,action,suspense and sometimes _______.
Q5) _____ is the art and science of teaching children.
Q6) _____ is the art and science of teaching adults.
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Chapter 14: Understanding Principles of Persuasive Speaking
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Q1) In the process of persuading your audience,which of the following is most difficult to change?
A)beliefs
B)values
C)emotions
D)attitudes
Q2) If you present a pro-life speech and get the pro-choice listeners to feel uncomfortable with their positions,you have effectively used the persuasive technique of A)negative motivation.
B)appealing to basic human needs.
C)emotional appeal.
D)cognitive dissonance.
Q3) The most basic needs for all humans are ______ needs.Unless these needs are met,it will be difficult to motivate a listener to satisfy other needs.
A)physiological
B)safety
C)social
D)psychological
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Chapter 15: Using Persuasive Strategies
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Q1) Marty's persuasive speech was about gun control and school violence.He made the statement,"Either we take guns out of the hands of everyone in this country,except the police and military,or we can expect massacres in schools all over this country." This kind of argument represents
A)a bandwagon fallacy.
B)an ad hominem fallacy.
C)an appeal to misplaced authority.
D)an either/or fallacy.
Q2) List and provide an example of three different types of fallacies.
Q3) An all-encompassing statement is a ______.
Q4) Ad hominem is a conclusion reached without adequate evidence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When attempting to persuade an audience that is neutral,you should
A)refer to beliefs that many listeners share.
B)ask listeners for an immediate show of support.
C)consider making advocacy rather than understanding your goal.
D)acknowledge the opposing points of view that members of your audience may hold.
Q6) List five tips for using emotion to persuade.
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Chapter 16: Speaking for Special Occasions and Purposes
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Q1) A ______ is a public discussion during which the members of a group share responsibility by presenting a series of short speeches to an audience.
A)symposium
B)forum
C)panel discussion
D)news briefing
Q2) What should the speaker keep in mind when giving an acceptance speech?
A)You should use an impromptu delivery so the remarks don't sound canned.
B)You should thank those giving you the award and comment on the significance of the award to you.
C)You should be emotional,sincere,and take as long as you wish.
D)You should write out your whole speech,word-for-word on note cards,so you can use them to read from.
Q3) A speech of tribute that is delivered when someone has died is known as a A)eulogy.
B)keynote address.
C)speech of dedication.
D)commemorative address.
Q4) What is a spoonerism? Provide a specific example.
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