Full Test Bank Ch7 Integrating Support

Test Bank

Chapter 7: Integrating Support

Multiple Choice

1. The primary use of ______ is to support specific points, to engage the audience.

a. examples

b. definitions

c. analogies

d. statistics

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The primary use of ______ is to explain words or concepts.

a. examples

b. definitions

c. analogies

d. statistics

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. The primary use of ______ is to promote understanding via comparisons and contrasts.

a. examples

b. definitions

c. analogies

d. statistics

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4. Use Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The primary use of ______ is to strengthen claims and reinforce facts.

a. examples

b. definitions

c. analogies

d. statistics

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The primary use of ______ is to clarify, to evoke a sensory response.

a. examples

b. explanations and descriptions

c. analogies

d. testimony

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The primary use of ______ is to increase believability and credibility.

a. examples

b. explanations and descriptions

c. analogies

d. testimony

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Which of the following are true for short examples?

a. They support a general argument.

b. They are typically a paragraph or more in length.

c. When used in a series, they gain power.

d. Short examples are equivalent to thesis statements.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1a. Short Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Extended examples are also sometimes known as ______.

a. illustrations

b. episodes

c. stories

d. metaphors

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1b. Narrative Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. When you use examples that have not actually occurred into your speeches, you are using ______ examples.

a. hypothetical

b. false

c. theoretical

d. fictional

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.1c. Hypothetical Examples

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. In order for ______ to fulfill their purpose, audiences must accept that the fictional scenarios you create could really happen.

a. analogies

b. hypothetical examples

c. definitions

d. descriptions

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1c. Hypothetical Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Which of the following is not a question you should ask yourself when assessing your examples?

a. Is the example universal?

b. Is the example vivid?

c. Does the example clarify your message?

d. Will your listeners be bored by the example?

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1d. Assess the Power of Your Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. ______ examples are very much like stories.

a. Extended

b. Short

c. Hyperbolic

d. Metaphoric

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1b. Narrative Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. In her speech, Jean provides an overview of the symptoms of a disease, and this facilitates the audience’s understanding of the respective disease. Jean uses ______.

a. an explanation

b. a definition

c. a citation

d. a script

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 7.2a. Explanations

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Speakers use descriptions for which of the following?

a. to produce fresh and striking word pictures

b. to provoke sensory reactions

c. to create greater message vividness

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.2b. Descriptions

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Why are definitions useful to your audience?

a. They provide easier content for audience members to follow.

b. They can trick your audience into believing your message.

c. They can facilitate audience acceptance of a speaker’s ideas.

d. They help your audience follow the outline of your speech.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: 7.3. Use Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. A definition does which of the following?

a. They provide easier content for audience members to follow.

b. They can trick your audience into believing your message.

c. They help your audience follow the outline of your speech.

d. They help bridge cultural divides.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3b. How Do You Define a Word?

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. ______ are designed to clarify intended meanings of concepts.

a. Descriptions

b. Definitions

c. Explanations

d. Analogies

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3c. Assess the Power of Your Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Which of the following is a question that you can ask yourself in order to assess your definition?

a. Does my definition contribute to the overall goal and purpose of my speech?

b. Is my definition easily understood?

c. Am I consistent in the way I define or explain a term or problem?

d. All of these are questions you can ask yourself.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3c. Assess the Power of Your Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. A/an ______ functions to increase understanding through comparison and contrast.

a. definition

b. explanation

c. analogy

d. hypothetical example

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4. Use Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. A ______ compares two things from similar classes, for example, two viruses, two novels, or two crises.

a. literal analogy

b. metaphorical analogy

c. figurative analogy

d. hypothetical analogy

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4a. Literal Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. A ______ compares two things that are distinctively dissimilar and that at first appear to have little in common with each other.

a. literal analogy

b. metaphorical analogy

c. figurative analogy

d. hypothetical analogy

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. The ______ is the difference between the highest and the lowest numbers in a series.

a. mean

b. median

c. mode

d. range

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.5a. Understand What Statistics Mean

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. The ______ is the middle number in a group of numbers arranged in order from highest to lowest.

a. mean

b. median

c. mode

d. range

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.5a. Understand What Statistics Mean

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. The ______ is the number that occurs most commonly in a group of numbers.

a. mean

b. median

c. mode

d. range

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.5a. Understand What Statistics Mean

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Which of the following is a question you should ask yourself when assessing your use of statistics?

a. Is it all right if I don’t cite my source?

b. Am I being totally honest in my use of these statistics?

c. Have I backed up every claim with statistics?

d. Are the statistics I used convincing?

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5e. Assess Your Use of Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Factual information offered by biased sources may contain ______.

a. omissions

b. facts

c. the truth

d. definitions

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5c. Use Statistics Ethically

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. When speakers use the opinions of others either to support positions they are taking or to reinforce claims they are making, they are using ______.

a. credibility

b. sources

c. testimony

d. statistics

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. ______ testimony is provided by sources recognized as authorities on your topic.

a. Professional

b. Expert

c. Specialty

d. Official

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6a. Expert Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. A set of statistics cited in a speech can help to establish the problem’s magnitude by adding ______.

a. context

b. organization

c. interpretation

d. definitions

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. When you present the opinions of people who are not necessarily recognized authorities, but “ordinary people” who have firsthand experience with the subject, you are presenting peer or ______ testimony.

a. expert

b. lay

c. normal

d. stranger

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.6b. Peer or Lay Testimony

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. When watching a speech, the speaker should keep in mind that the audience members will have access only to the sources they identify ______.

a. through visuals

b. through reference pages

c. orally

d. on their own

Learning Objective: 7.7: Properly cite support in a speech.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.7. Citing Sources in Your Speech

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. In order for hypothetical examples to fulfill their purpose, audiences must accept that the ______ you create could really happen.

a. fictional scenarios

b. truths

c. narrative images

d. real scenarios

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1. Use Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. Expert testimony is provided by those cognized as ______ on your topic.

a. contributors

b. authorities

c. speakers

d. writers

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

Fill-in-the-Blank

1. The primary use of ______ is to support specific points, to engage the audience.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Table 7.1. Support

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The primary use of ______ is to explain words and concepts.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Table 7.1. Support

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. You can use ______ examples to support a specific point.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 7.1a. Short Examples

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Rather than being totally contrived, the hypothetical situations you cite will be a ______ of actual situations, people, or events.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1. Use Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. ______ examples are very much like stories.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1b. Narrative Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The use of ______ is to promote understanding via comparisons and contrasts.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. While speakers use ______ to clarify the unfamiliar for their receivers, they use ______ to produce fresh and striking word pictures designed to provoke sensory reaction.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.2b. Descriptions

Difficulty Level: Medium

1. A good ______ should not under-or-over explain, but facilitate audience understanding.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.2a. Explanations

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Definitions help bridge ______, enhance audience understanding, and facilitate audience acceptance of a speaker’s ideas.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3. Use Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. The two types of analogies are ______ and figurative.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. A ______ analogy compares two things that at first appear to have little in common with each other.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The ______ is the number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5a. Understand What Statistics Mean

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. A set of statistics cited in a speech can help to establish the problem’s magnitude by adding ______.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. ______ testimony is provided by sources recognized as authorities on your topic.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6a. Expert Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. When speakers use the opinions of others either to support positions they are taking or to reinforce claims they are making, they are using ______.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. ______ or lay testimony comes from people who are not recognized as authorities, but who have firsthand experience with the subject.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Expert testimony occurs when you cite an authority and establish his or her ______.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. For speeches, testimony often works well because it lets the speaker borrow someone else’s ______.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6b. Peer or Lay Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Keep in mind that your audience members will have access only to the sources you identify ______.

Learning Objective: 7.7: Properly cite support in a speech.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.7. Citing Sources in Your Speech

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. By touching audience members in the way a generalization never could, an illustration helps the speaker pull listeners into the speech.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.1b. Narrative Examples

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. You don’t need to tell your audience when an example you are using is hypothetical.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.1c. Hypothetical Examples

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Hypothetical examples are intended to trick your listeners into believing something that is not true.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.1c. Hypothetical Examples

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Extended examples are very much like stories.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1b. Narrative Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The primary use of explanations and descriptions is to clarify and/or to evoke a sensory response.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.2. Use Explanations and Descriptions

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The primary use of analogies is to explain words and concepts.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Definitions help bridge cultural divides and enhance audience understanding.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3. Use Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. The primary use of analogies is to explain what words mean.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chapter Introduction

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The two types of analogies are literal and figurative.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Literal analogies are those that compare two things that first appear to have little in common with each other.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. “A horror movie is like a fairy tale on steroids” is an example of a figurative analogy.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Testimony is like borrowing someone else’s credibility.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6c. Assess the Power of Your Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. The statistics you choose to use can increase the impact of your points.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5b. Put Statistics to Use

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. The mean is the number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5a. Understand What Statistics Mean

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. The number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items is called the median.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5a. Understand What Statistics Mean

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Presenting your statistics visually can make it easier for your audience to understand.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5d. Present Statistics Visually

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Expert testimony comes from “ordinary people” and provides the audience with the insight from those who have “been there.”

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Testimony does not work because you are taking someone else’s credibility.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6b. Peer or Lay Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Peer or lay testimony comes from people who are not recognized as authorities, but who have firsthand experience with the subject.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Supporting materials are evaluated twice: initially by the speaker, and subsequently by receivers.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6a. Expert Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Quoting an archeologist while giving a speech on the new discovery of fossil remains in New Zealand is an example of expert testimony.

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 7.6a Expert Testimony

Difficulty Level: Hard

22. The audience members will have access only to the sources the speaker identifies through visuals.

Learning Objective: 7.7: Properly cite support in a speech.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.7. Citing Sources in Your Speech

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. The range measures the dispersion of values.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. A percentage is a part of the whole expressed in thousands.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Speakers use figurative analogies to awaken the collective imagination of the audience—to prod them into accepting that two things that appear to have little, if anything, in common, actually share one or more vital similarities.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. In statistics, the mean is the number that occurs most frequently in a list of values.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer/Essay

1. What are the different types of examples? Define each.

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1. Use Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What are narrative examples?

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.1. Use Examples

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. How can hypothetical examples be used efficiently?

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1. Use Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. How can a speaker assess the power of their examples?

Learning Objective: 7.1: Use and assess the effectiveness of examples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.1. Use Examples

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Define analogies and offer two examples.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4. Use Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Describe literal analogies and give an example.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 7.4. Use Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. How can speakers use definitions? What is the purpose of using definitions in your speech?

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3. Use Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Discuss and exemplify why we use explanations in our speeches.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.2. Use Explanations and Descriptions

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Discuss and exemplify why we use descriptions in our speeches.

Learning Objective: 7.2: Use and assess the effectiveness of explanations and descriptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.2. Use Explanations and Descriptions

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Discuss and exemplify the benefits of each way you could define a word.

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3. Use Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. How can a speaker gauge the power of the definitions they use in their speech?

Learning Objective: 7.3: Use and assess the effectiveness of facts and definitions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.3. Use Definitions

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. How can a speaker access the power of their analogies? Give a checklist.

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4c. Assess the Power of Your Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Why do we use statistics in speeches?

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. What do statistics mean for a speech?

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. How should a speaker present statistics in their speech? Give an example.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. What are common statistical measures? Define each.

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. How can a speaker gauge how useful and effective statistics would be in their speech?

Learning Objective: 7.5: Use and assess the effectiveness of statistics.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.5. Use Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. What is peer or lay testimony?

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 7.6b. Peer or Lay Testimony

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. How can the speaker assess the power of the testimonies used in their speech?

Learning Objective: 7.6: Use and assess the effectiveness of testimony.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.6b. Peer or Lay Testimony

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Why is it important to orally cite your sources?

Learning Objective: 7.7: Properly cite support in a speech.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: 7.6. Use Testimony

Difficulty Level: Hard

21. What is the benefit of using literal analogies in your speech?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4a. Literal Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. What is the primary purpose of using analogies in speeches?

Learning Objective: 7.4: Use and assess the effectiveness of analogies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 7.4b. Figurative Analogies

Difficulty Level: Medium