Wording The Speech Exam Questions Chapter 11

Test Bank

Chapter 11: Wording the Speech

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following are wrong choices of words that contribute to audience’s boredom or confusion during your speech?

a. Words that are vivid.

b. Words that are descriptive.

c. Words that are easy to understand.

d. Words that don’t capture the imagination.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. ______ is a unified system of symbols that permits us to share meaning.

a. Language

b. Meaning

c. Symbol

d. Definition

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The ______ stands for, or represents, something else.

a. example

b. word

c. symbol

d. definition

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Communication theorists C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards model of the tenuous relationships among words, thoughts, and things is known as the ______.

a. triangle of meaning

b. circle of meaning

c. triangle of power

d. circle of power

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. For language to work, there must be a ______ understanding about what the words we are using mean to others.

a. universal

b. common

c. separate

d. private

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Used well, words can cause an audience to feel intensely, overcoming their ______.

a. antipathy

b. apathy

c. anxiety

d. differences

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Meanings exist in ______.

a. words

b. facts

c. objects

d. minds of people

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Meaning exists not in words, but in the ______.

a. evidence

b. arguments

c. minds of people

d. facts

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. One of your prime speechmaking objectives is to translate your ______ into language your listeners will understand and respond to.

a. words

b. facts

c. ideas

d. cues

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The ______ meaning is the word’s dictionary definition.

a. connotative

b. literal

c. denotative

d. subjective

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The ______ meaning is variable and subjective.

a. connotative

b. literal

c. denotative

d. subjective

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. What audience members do carry with them in their heads is the ______ meaning of words.

a. connotative

b. literal

c. denotative

d. subjective

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Describing “home” as a place of warmth and safety would be the ______ meaning.

a. connotative

b. literal

c. denotative

d. subjective

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. People in Western cultures tend to rely on which of the following form of reasoning?

a. inductive

b. deductive

c. both inductive and deductive

d. neither inductive nor deductive

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. ______ reasoning is reasoning that relies on observation and specific instances or examples to build a case or argument.

a. Inductive

b. Deductive

c. Research-based

d. Theory-based

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Which of the following are ways to use plain and unbiased language?

a. Eliminating idioms and jargon.

b. “Dumbing down” your content.

c. Speaking in long units.

d. Use very technical language.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3d. Use Plain, Unbiased Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. A physician who is giving a speech to a group of non-physicians and continuously uses advanced medical terminology would be making a mistake by using ______.

a. jargon

b. slang

c. metaphors

d. alliteration

Learning Objective: 11.4: 11.5.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.4a. Keep It Simple

Difficulty Level: Hard

18. While they may make it easier for speakers to handle unpleasant subjects, ______ often also make it harder for audiences to develop a clear and accurate perception of what the speaker is saying.

a. examples

b. euphemisms

c. evidence

d. analogies

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4b. Keep It Concrete

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. For some, though certainly not all individuals, being ______ means using words that convey respect for and sensitivity to the needs and interests of different groups.

a. culturally sensitive

b. politically sensitive

c. culturally correct

d. politically correct

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Which of the following is true of sexist language?

a. It suggests one gender is the most capable.

b. It uses inclusive language.

c. It suggests that the sexes are equal but different.

d. It gives equal status to all genders.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Terms such as “female doctor” or “male nurse” are examples of ______.

a. labeling

b. spotlighting

c. sexism

d. stereotyping

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. In terms of ageist language, which of the following is true of the United States?

a. U.S. culture tends to disparage the elderly.

b. U.S. culture tends to advantage the youthful.

c. U.S. culture tends to exalt the elderly.

d. U.S. culture tends to exalt the youthful.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Saying Usain Bolt “runs like the wind” is an example of using ______ language.

a. figurative

b. literal

c. metaphorical

d. hypothetical

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. ______ is a direct comparison of dissimilar things, usually with the words “like” or “as.”

a. A simile

b. A metaphor

c. Antithesis

d. Alliteration

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Parallelism includes the repetition of which of the following?

a. words

b. evidence

c. phrases

d. a & c

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. “For too long, American leadership has waffled and wiggled and wavered” is an example of ______.

a. a simile

b. a metaphor

c. an antithesis

d. an alliteration

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Antithesis involves presenting ______ within the same or adjoining sentences.

a. similarities

b. opposites

c. metaphors

d. similes

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Easy

28.______ is a unified system of symbols that permits us to share meaning.

a. Language

b. Metaphor

c. Personification

d. Simile

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. Whereas North Americans tend to exhibit a frank, direct speechmaking style that is sometimes confrontational, Asians place a high value on ______.

a. time

b. organization

c. politeness

d. research

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. You should plan to use the pronouns I, us, me, we, and you in your speech. These pronouns will make your speech sound more ______.

a. active

b. passive

c. polite

d. personal

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4e. Keep It Personal

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Words, like people, have the power to sway and influence people. Choose your words to help receivers share your ______.

a. vision

b. history

c. experience

d. persuasion

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4e. Keep It Personal

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. When you create a speech you write it to be heard, not ______.

a. interpreted

b. used

c. read

d. avoided

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. What style is more personal than written style?

a. manuscript

b. song

c. edited

d. oral

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. Oral style is much more ______ than a written style because it requires reinforcement to remember what has been said.

a. condensed

b. political

c. repetitive

d. informative

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. If you want your audience to remember what you say, make them feel more ______ by using an oral style.

a. involved

b. comfortable

c. knowledgeable

d. important

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

Fill-in-the-Blank

1. If you select words that have audience ______, words that succeed in moving others emotionally and intellectually, you are likely to establish a strong connection with your audience.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. ______ is a unified system of symbols that permits us to share meaning.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Words have both denotative and ______ meanings.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Meaning exists not in words, but in the minds of ______.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Using ______ language helps your audience picture your meaning, while the sound and rhythm of certain words help them sense your intensity.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Whereas North Americans tend to exhibit a frank, direct speechmaking style that is sometimes confrontational, Asians place a high value on ______.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. ______ is reasoning that takes a known idea or general principle and applies it to a situation.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. The ______ stands for, or represents, something else.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. ______ language is the deliberate, purposeful, and hurtful use of words intended to oppress someone who has a different skin color than the speaker.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.3d. Use Plain, Unbiased Language

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. A ______ is a direct comparison of dissimilar things, usually with the words “like” or “as.”

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Inductive reasoning relies on ______ and specific instances or examples to build a case or argument.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. In order for language to work, there must be a ______ understanding about what the words we are using mean to others.

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. When used well, words have the ability to cause the audience to feel intensely, overcoming their feelings of ______.

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. ______ meanings are variable and subjective.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The ______ meaning is the word’s dictionary definition.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Terms such as “female doctor” or “male nurse” are examples of ______.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. ______ is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. ______ involves presenting opposites within the same or adjoining sentences.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Easy

19.______, a word or words imitating natural sounds, also enhances vividness.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Different words that describe the same event can ______ very different responses.

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. When you create a speech you write it to be ______, not ______.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Oral style is much more ______ than written style. You can get immediate feedback and respond in turn.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Oral style is much ______ than written style. While written discourse often contains abstract ideas, complex phrases, and a sophisticated vocabulary, simpler sentences and shorter words and phrases characterize the oral style.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The language of public speaking is less like the language of an ______ and more like the language of a skilled ______.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Audiences better retain and more easily recall a speech when it is filled with everyday ______ expressions, clear transitions, personal pronouns, and questions.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. When delivering a speech you are able to talk ______ to your audience and invite participation.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Speakers should use plain, unbiased, and ______ language that makes the message clear for the audience to understand.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. When practicing your speech you should listen for the sound and ______ of your words.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. A symbol stands for, or represents, something else.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Different words that describe the same event can evoke very different responses.

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. If you select words that have audience appeal, words that succeed in moving others emotionally and intellectually, you are likely to establish a strong connection with your audience.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. One of the prime speechmaking objectives is to translate ideas into language that the listeners will understand and respond to.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Definitions are a unified system of symbols that permits us to share meaning.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The words you use can help shape the desired response from your audience.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. People in Western cultures tend to rely only on deductive reasoning.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Meanings exist in the minds of people.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Words have always had the same definitions.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3b. Consider Time and Place

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. One of your prime speechmaking objectives is to translate your cues into language, your listeners will understand and respond to.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The connotative meaning is the word’s dictionary definition.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3a. Overcome Communication Obstacles

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Inductive reasoning relies on observation and specific instances or examples to build a case or argument.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Using simple words will make you seem simple.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4a. Keep It Simple

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Antithesis involves presenting opposites within the same or adjoining sentences.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. For some, though certainly not all individuals, being politically correct means using words that convey respect for and sensitivity to the needs and interests of different groups.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Describing water with “plip, plop, plop” is an example of onomatopoeia.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Terms such as “female doctor” or “male nurse” are examples of objectification.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Onomatopoeia is a word or words imitating natural sounds. It also enhances vividness.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4d. Keep It Distinctive and Vivid

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. You should plan to use the personal pronouns I, us, me, we, and you in your speech.

Learning Objective: 11.4: Make strategic word choices.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.4e. Keep It Personal

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Oral style is less adaptive than written style.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Listeners better retain and more easily recall a speech when it is filled with everyday colloquial expressions, clear transitions, personal pronouns, and questions.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. A speaker can adjust the wording of their speech by using antithesis, alliteration, parallelism, and understatements.

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer/Essay

1. Discuss and exemplify the Triangle of Meaning.

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What are connotative and denotative meanings?

Learning Objective: 11.1: Explain how words work.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.1. Understand How Words Work

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Discuss and exemplify how the words we choose can influence how our audience connects with us.

Learning Objective: 11.2: Use words that connect with receivers.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.2. Use Words to Connect

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Discuss and exemplify how you can overcome communication obstacles between you and your audience in your speech.

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What is inductive and deductive reasoning?

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Why is it important to consider culture when choosing our words and style?

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: 11.3. Consider Your Audience

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. How can a speaker use unbiased language?

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3d. Use Plain, Unbiased Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Why is it important to keep the language in your speech concrete?

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: 11.3d. Use Plain, Unbiased Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Why is it important to be mindful of the appropriateness of the content of a speech?

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: 11.4c. Keep It Appropriate

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. How do people in Western and non-Western cultures present their messages?

Learning Objective: 11.3: Use words that demonstrate your consideration of the audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.3c. Observe Reasoning and Thinking Preferences

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. How can you increase the vividness of your speech?

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. What game plan can a speaker have or consider when choosing their words?

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. How does public speaking language differ from the language of an essayist?

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. How do written and oral styles tend to differ?

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. How can a speaker change the wording and rhythm of their speech?

Learning Objective: 11.5: Adopt an oral style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 11.5. Use Oral Style

Difficulty Level: Medium