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Public Speaking - Chapter 1 Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Shared Meaning
  2. Mass Communication
  3. Forensic Oratory
  4. Encoding
  5. Epideictic
  1. a Occurs between a speaker and a large audience of unknown people.
  2. b Speech delivered in small ceremonies, such as celebrations and funerals.
  3. c The mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
  4. d Creating, organizing, and producing the message (converting thoughts into words).
  5. e Advocating or legal speech.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. The recipient of the source's message.
  2. Anything that influences the speaker, the audience, the occasion, and thus the speech. (E.g. In classroom speeches, recent events on campus.)
  3. Invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery.
  4. The way the speaker uses language to express the speech ideas.
  5. Any interference with the message.

5 True/False Questions

  1. ArrangementOrganizing the speech in ways that are best suited to the topic and the audience.

          

  2. Rhetoric (oratory)Advocating or legal speech.

          

  3. InventionAny interference with the message.

          

  4. ChannelThe medium through which the speaker is delivering a message.

          

  5. AgoraTraditionally known as a place where the Roman republic used their public speaking skills, where today it denotes a variety of venues for the discussion of issues of public interest.