MPU 2222: Final Exam practice

Which of the following does your textbook recommend as a way to deal with nervousness in your speeches?

• Visualize the worst things that could happen

• Turn negative thoughts into positive thoughts

• Stay up late in the night before to finish preparing

• Avoid making direct eye contact with the audience

The type of delivery in which you plan your speech in detail and learn it well without trying to memorize the exact wording is called ___________.

• impromptu

• memorization

• extemporaneous

• manuscript reading

To say that people usually want to hear about things that are meaningful to them is to say that people are ___________.

• eclectic

• egotistic

• empathetic

• egocentric

Academic databases are the best place to look for ___________.

• high-quality Web resources

• articles in scholarly journals

• statistics about colleges and universities

• encyclopedias and other reference works

The denotative meaning of a word is __________

• its literal or dictionary meaning

• what the word suggests or implies

• based on the audience's sense of appropriateness

• usually more abstract than its connotative meaning

The two most important factors affecting the credibility of a persuasive speaker are character and ___________.

• status

• pathos

• charisma

• competence

A sentence or two that lets the audience know that a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another is called a ___________.

• bridge

• summary

• transition

• conclusion

What are the three criteria for assessing the soundness of documents found on the Internet?

• creativity, reliability, and length

• graphics, sponsorship, and accuracy

• authorship, sponsorship, and recency

• interactivity, objectivity, and authorship

If you hoped to convey to your audience the excitement of steering a kayak through a river rapids, you should probably ___________.

• speak at a faster rate

• gesture less frequently

• use more vocalized pauses

• break eye contact with your audience

If your specific purpose statement were "To inform my audience about the major kinds of dog breeds," you would probably organize your speech in ___________ order.

• causal

• spatial

• topical

• chronological