Style And Delivery In Public Speaking Exam Prep Chapter 16 - Test Bank | Human Communication The Basic Course 14e by Joseph A. DeVito. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 16 Test Bank
Multiple Choice
16.1. The term _____ refers to the degree to which a communication style resembles that of informal conversation.
A) oral style
B) comprehension
C) written style
D) axiom
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Difficult
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.2. Which of the following statements about spoken language is true?
A) You speak in the same style that you write.
B) Spoken language uses shorter, simpler, and more familiar words than written language.
C) Spoken language uses fewer pseudo-quantifying terms than written language.
D) Spoken language uses fewer “allness” terms than written language.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.3. Which of the following would be the best choice when attempting to use short, familiar terms in a speech?
A) utilize
B) eschew
C) use
D) ascertain
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.4. All of the following are guidelines for making your language vivid EXCEPT
A) use passive verbs.
B) use strong verbs.
C) use figures of speech.
D) use imagery.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.5. _____ is the use of extreme exaggeration, as in “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”
A) Alliteration
B) Hyperbole
C) Irony
D) Personification
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.6. The phrase “City Hall issued the following news release” BEST illustrates which figure of speech?
A) hyperbole
B) metonymy
C) antithesis
D) rhetorical question
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.7. What does the author suggest you do to make your language appropriate?
A) Generally avoid ethnic expressions.
B) Use unfamiliar terms.
C) Use formal language.
D) Use slang.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Difficult
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.8. What does the text suggest you do to create a personal style of speaking?
A) Avoid the use of personal pronouns.
B) Ask questions.
C) Avoid familiar terms.
D) Refer to differences between you and the audience members.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.9. How can we create immediacy?
A) Refer to differences between you and your audience.
B) Use terms that include you and your audience, such as “we” and “our.”
C) Address the audience indirectly, such as “students” instead of “you.”
D) Avoid personal examples.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Difficult
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.10. The author suggests that to empower your speaking, you should avoid self-critical statements because
A) they make you sound unprepared.
B) they signal low social class and hence little power.
C) they signal a lack of confidence and make public your sense of inadequacy.
D) they make your speeches all sound the same.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.11. Which of the following is a cliché?
A) I’ll review the report now, okay?
B) She is over the hill.
C) I’m not very good at this.
D) My car is tired and wants a drink.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.12. Which of the following is advised for phrasing sentences in a speech?
A) Use short sentences.
B) Use passive sentences.
C) Keep sentences long and complex.
D) Maintain one style of sentence structure.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.13. Active sentences are easier to understand. Which of the following is an active sentence?
A) The appeal was rejected by the court.
B) The request was granted by the committee.
C) The administration favored the proposal.
D) The proposal was ignored by management.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.14. Which of the following is a positive sentence?
A) The committee did not accept the proposal.
B) The committee rejected the proposal.
C) The committee does not work well together.
D) The committee has not been productive.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.15. What advice is given for rehearsing your speech?
A) Rehearse the speech in parts.
B) Time the speech only on your last rehearsal.
C) Rehearse the speech no less than ten times.
D) Rehearse the speech in front of a full-length mirror.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.2
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.2 Identify the suggestions for effective and efficient speech rehearsal.
Topic: Step 9: Rehearse Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.16. Which of the following is NOT a step in undertaking a long-term delivery improvement program?
A) Seek feedback from someone whose opinion you respect.
B) Seek professional help if you’re psychologically uncomfortable with aspects of your voice or bodily action.
C) Be satisfied with whatever vocal qualities you have.
D) Learn to hear, see, and feel the differences between effective and ineffective patterns.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.2
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.2 Identify the suggestions for effective and efficient speech rehearsal.
Topic: Step 9: Rehearse Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.17. When the presenter didn’t show up, Marley was asked to give the presentation without any preparation. This is an example of ________ speech.
A) an extemporaneous
B) a manuscript
C) an impromptu
D) a memorized
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.18. A potential problem with the _____ speech is the risk of forgetting your speech.
A) extemporaneous
B) manuscript
C) impromptu
D) memorized
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.19. According to the author, the _____ speech is a useful method in most speaking situations.
A) extemporaneous
B) manuscript
C) impromptu
D) memorized
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.20. All of the following are suggested guidelines for making your presentation more effective EXCEPT
A) be natural.
B) use a presentation style to reinforce your message.
C) avoid varying your delivery volume.
D) be conversational.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.21. Luther said, “Ax the teacher when the test is.” Luster was displaying an error of
A) pronunciation.
B) accent.
C) articulation.
D) gesticulation.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: APPLY What You Know
16.22. _____ pauses can be used effectively in speeches.
A) Filled
B) Vocalized
C) Unplanned
D) Unfilled
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.23. The most important single aspect of bodily communication is
A) gesture.
B) facial expression.
C) eye contact.
D) posture.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.24. Public criticism may be more positively accepted in _____ cultures than in _____ cultures.
A) high-context; low-context
B) individualist; collectivist
C) low-power-distance; high-power-distance
D) Asian; American
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.4
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.4 Identify the suggestions for giving and receiving criticism.
Topic: Speech Criticism
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.25. All of the following are guidelines for criticizing speeches more effectively EXCEPT
A) be general.
B) be constructive.
C) own your criticism.
D) focus on behavior.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.4
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.4 Identify the suggestions for giving and receiving criticism.
Topic: Speech Criticism
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
True/False
16.26. When speaking, you probably make greater use of such expressions as although, however, and perhaps than when you are writing.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.27. Alliteration is the presentation of contrary ideas in parallel form.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.28. Georgia didn’t like Samson, so when Mary asked her what she thought of him, she said “Oh, I just love him.” Georgia was using irony.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What you Know
16.29. When Donald says, “I’m a really, really smart person; I’m smarter than everyone,” he is increasing the power of his speech.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Apply What You Know
16.30. It is BEST to only rehearse once before giving a speech to keep it fresh.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.2
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.2 Identify the suggestions for effective and efficient speech rehearsal.
Topic: Step 9: Rehearse Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.31. Manuscript speeches are problematic because they do not allow for easy adjustment on the basis of audience feedback.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.32. When you speak extemporaneously, you speak without any specific preparation.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.33. Predictable patterns of delivery are BEST because they reduce the audience’s uncertainty.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.34. If you are asked a question at the end of your speech that you do not know the answer to, you should make something up so that you can quickly move on to the next question.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
16.35. When giving criticism, it is a good idea to catalogue the speaker’s weak points, i.e.: “I found four things wrong with your speech.”
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.4
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.4 Identify the suggestions for giving and receiving criticism.
Topic: Speech Criticism
Difficulty: Easy
Skill: Remember the Facts
Essay
16.36. Discuss oral style in detail. What are some ways that the author suggests using words to support oral style in effective presentations?
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.37. Discuss and illustrate vividness in language. Pick at least two of these to elaborate on: active verbs, strong verbs, figures of speech, and imagery.
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.1
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.1 Explain the ways you can add clarity, vividness, appropriateness, personal style, and forcefulness to your speeches and phrases sentences effectively.
Topic: Step 8: Style Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.38. Describe the four methods of presentation. Provide an example of the kind of speaking situation that would work for each of the four methods. What are the benefits and drawbacks of each of the four methods?
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.39. How should you use your voice and body to effectively deliver a speech?
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.3
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.3 Explain the qualities of effective voice and bodily action in public speaking.
Topic: Step 10: Present Your Speech
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
16.40. Define criticism. Explain how you would practice effective criticism of your peers’ speeches in class. How might culture impact how we handle giving and receiving public criticism?
Chapter: 16
Module: 16.4
Learning Objective: L.O. 16.4 Identify the suggestions for giving and receiving criticism.
Topic: Speech Criticism
Difficulty: Moderate
Skill: Understand the Concepts
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