speech study guide quiz #3

After his speech teacher assigns an informative speech, Angel begins to worry about what to choose as his topic. He writes down "dance". This reminds him of several related topics and he creates a concept map of related ideas. Angel is using what strategy?

clustering

What linguistic theory asserts that the more concrete your words, the cleaer your communication?

general semantics

In discovering that you and your audience members have similar cultural characteristics, are about the same age, and have about the same education level, you are trying to determine_____

common ground

Annie begins her presentation by explaining the issue of low first-year student retention and ends her presentation by suggeseting that upperclassmen should mentor first-year students. Annie's presentation is likely organized as a ______ pattern.

problem-solution

The wat that a speaker emphasizes certain elements of the pentad in telling a story can reveal ______.

the person's perspective on or view of the world

"I'm going to talk about the sport of baseball." an audience member would recognize this as a ___

blueprint statement

Which description best fits the following speech statement: "if you believe we should have stiffer penalties for juvenile offenders, then write to you congressman"

The language is sexist, as the term "congressman" implies only men serve in the legislature

For his communication class, Stan decides to present a speech on the importance of joining clubs and associations while living on campus. He determines that those students in his class who are living in the dorms and who don't have any extracutticular activities are the segment of his audience that he needs to influence the most. This segment is Stan's______

Target audience

The principle that maintains you should stay focused and provide only information that supports your thesis and main points is known as the ____

Unity principle

The way that a speaker emphasizes certain elements of the pentad in telling a story can reveal____

the person's perspective on or view of the world

As a last report, you pick up the daily newspaper and decide on a topic by looking at one of the headlines. According to the text, this strategy _______

is an effective way to find a speech topic

Statements such as "money talks" "that's my car; isn't she beautiful" are all examples of ________

personification

Beatriz passed around a brief questionnaire asking whether her classmates were for or against the act. Based on the text, was this a good idea?

Yes; this is a form of psychological audience analysis = a usedful technique for any kind of audience

Which of the following would not constitute an account of one's communication?

lying

Reversing the normal word order of a phase or sentence is called

inversion

_______ demonstrates or indicates the nature of the relationship between speakers?

indexical function

The need to be seen and accepted as a worthwhile and reasonable person

positive face

A ______ audience does not have an externally imposed reason for being there?

voluntary

_______ is the process of examining information about the listeners who will hear your speech

Audience analysis

When a sentence has two clauses that use the same grammatical pattern but contrasting meanings is called _______

antithesis

The informal, often ungrammatical use of language is called

low code

Semanticists use a _____ to model how something can be described in either concrete or abstract language

abstraction ladder

_______ is when people move away from a person's style of speech to make a relational point.

Divergence

_________ is when people are attuned to time and time management' quick reponses to problems are valued?

Short term

Organize the 5-cultural dyads discussed in chapter 6: BB and explain the order you arranged them in?

Individualist/collectorist

low context/high context

need for certainty/noneed for certainty

high power/ low power

short term/long term orietation

List 6 "cultural ways of speaking" according to Duck & McMahan

masc/fem

low context/high

individualist/collectivist

What three major steps in audience analysis "Becoming an audience centered Speaker"

Gather info

Analyze info

ethically adapt

List and explain the 4 principles of Speech organization and development according to duck and mcmahan?

points - having three main points w subpts

unity -

balance -

guidance - guiding the audience through speech

Define and explain the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and ts relationship to God and Devol terms?

"you think what you can say"

direct relationship to god and devil terms connected due to meaning given, reflects relationship, situtation, and frame you're in

Complete the following steps for Dinosaurs below:

Narrow topic

determine specific purpose statement

develop central idea

generate main ideas

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