Exercise Speech Critique

Exercise 6
1._______________ is not only the basis for most of our entertainment; it is also one of the best ways to
teach an audience (Carlson, 2005).
A. Humor B. Story telling C. The formation D. Conformity
2. Approach the Visual Learners with______________
A. Explanations of new ideas, large and small group discussions, lectures, audio recordings, stories, and
jokes
B. Maps, charts, graphs, diagrams, brochures, flow charts, highlighters, different colors, pictures, word
pictures, and different spatial arrangements
C. Lists, essays, reports, textbooks, definitions, printed handouts, readings, manuals, and web pages
D. Field trips, hands-on projects, sensory stimulations, laboratories, recipes and solutions to problems,
and collections of samples
3. Approach the Aural Learners with______________
jokes

4. Approach the Read/Write Learners with____________
jokes
5. Approach the Kinesthetic Learners with____________
jokes
6. What is an Informative Speech?
A. A speech in which the primary purpose is to provide the audience with information that they did not
already know, or to teach them more about a topic with which they are already familiar.
B. A speech that provides a detailed, vivid, word picture of a person, animal, place, or object.
C. A speech that shows listeners how some process is accomplished or how to perform it themselves.
D. A speech that provides a detailed, vivid, word picture of a person, animal, place, or object.
7. What is a Descriptive Speech?
8. What is a Demonstration Speech?
9. What is a Humor?
A. The use of amusing or comical facts, stories, or forms of expression to maintain an audience’s
attention.
B. An overwhelming feeling of being faced with so much information one cannot completely process it.
C. Very recent or unusual supporting ideas.
D. Refers to the audience’s perception of the speaker’s expertise, authenticity, and trustworthiness.
10. What is an Information Overload?
A. An attention getting technique whereby supporting ideas are compared to emphasize difference.
C. Also known as a briefing, the focus of this speech is on reports of current and historical events,
customs, transformations, inventions, policies, outcomes, and options.
D. Supporting material that is characterized by a high degree of emotion, color, volume, strength, or
other defining characteristic.
11. What is the General Purpose?
A. Supporting material that is characterized by a high degree of emotion, color, volume, strength, or
C. The use of amusing or comical facts, stories, or forms of expression to maintain an audience’s
attention.
D. The speaker’s overall goal, objective, or intent: to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
12. What is the Credibility?
A. An attention getting technique whereby supporting ideas are compared to emphasize difference.
B. Supporting material that is characterized by a high degree of emotion, color, volume, strength, or
C. Refers to the audience’s perception of the speaker’s expertise, authenticity, and trustworthiness.
D. A speech that shows listeners how some process is accomplished or how to perform it themselves.
13. What is the Speeches to Actuate?
A. The proposition you want the audience to accept.
B. A speech designed to anticipate the negative response of an audience, to bring attention to the
tensions between the two sides of the argument, and to explain why the audience should change
their views.
C. Persuasive speeches which seek to establish agreement about a particular topic.
D. Persuasive speeches which seek to change or motivate particular behaviors.
14. What is the Evaluation Criteria?
A. A set of standards for judging the merit of a proposition.
B. Foundational evidence which supports a claim, such as examples, statistics, or testimony.
C. The (often unstated) connection between data and claim.
D. The art of influencing or reinforcing people’s beliefs, attitudes, values, or actions.

15. What is the Status Quo?
A. The use of emotional appeals to persuade an audience.
B. The process of formulating an argument by moving from specific instances to a generalization.
C. Reasoning beginning with a major premise, then moving to a minor premise, before establishing a
specific claim.
D. The current situation.
16. What is an Inductive Reasoning?
A. Errors in reasoning that occur when a speaker fails to use appropriate or applicable evidence for their
argument.
B. The process of formulating an argument by moving from specific instances to a generalization.
C. Reasoning beginning with a major premise, then moving to a minor premise, before establishing a
specific claim.
D. The art of influencing or reinforcing people’s beliefs, attitudes, values, or actions.
17. What is a Commencement Speech?
A. speech is one that pays special accolades to an occasion, extraordinary person, event, idea, or
monument.
B. It is a brief presentation used to introduce the main speaker of an event and to inspire the audience
to listen to that speaker.
C. It is given by a well-known person of local, national, or international acclaim to mark a university or

secondary school graduation ceremony.
D. This is a ceremonial speech intended to praise or blame.

18. What is the Keynote Address?
A. It is being used to introduce the main speaker of an event and to inspire the audience to listen to that
speaker.
B. The note of a larger idea taking place at a conference or exposition usually organized around a
central theme.
C. It is serves to highlight the merits of the award recipient and to point out the purpose and significance
of the award being given.
D. A variation of the toast in which the speaker pays tribute to a person by poking fun at her or him in a
friendly way.
19. What is the debate?
A. Consists of three to fifteen people who share a common purpose, feel a sense of belonging to the
group, and exert influence on each other.
B. A structured argument in which participants speak for or against a pre-announced proposition.
C. The decreased effort of each individual member as the number of a group increases.
D. An abbreviated version of the preparation outline.
20. What is the Vocational Presentations?
A. A coordinated group of people organized to work together to achieve a specific, common goal.
B. Presentations related to a specific occupation.
C. A series of short speeches, usually informative, on various aspects of the same general topic.
Audience questions often follow.
D. A structured conversation among a small group of people who gather to accomplish a specific task.
21. A speech is___________: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like
children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. -Peggy Noonan
A. naturally chemically B. Exercising C. Poetry D. performances

22. What is the Impromptu Speeches?
A. The rate, pace, or rhythm of speech.
B. Reading the text of a speech word for word.
C. A speech delivered without previous preparation.
D. Variations, turns and slides in pitch to achieve meaning.
23. What is an Articulation?
A. The act of producing clear, precise and distinct speech.
B. The particular sound quality (e.g. nasal or breathy) or emotional expression of the voice.
C. To say with exactly the same words.
D. The execution of a speech in front of an audience.
24. What is the Vocalized Pauses?
A. Variations, turns and slides in pitch to achieve meaning.
B. The execution of a speech in front of an audience.
C. The accent, inflection, intonation and sound quality of a speaker’s voice. Also known as enunciation.
D. Verbal fillers in speech such as “um,” “uh,” “like,” “and,” or “you know.”
25.
What is the name of this diagram?
A. Triangle of Meaning B. Equilateral Triangle
C. Triangle Inequality Theorem D. Congruent Triangle

26. Which one is the Ageist Words?
A.
B.
C.
D.
27. Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates a
significant an impression by remaining __________. - Dalai Lama
A. styles B. Communication C. silent D. cultures
28. What is an Individualism-Collectivism?
A. The dimension of individualism-collectivism refers to the degree to which a culture relies on and has
allegiance to the self or the group.
B. A denotative meaning is the socially agreed conventional meaning found in a dictionary.
C. Prejudice refers to a negative attitude toward a cultural group, often based on little or no experience.
D. All main points will be united by one theme.

29. What is the Stereotype?
A. A type of holistic pattern, the star pattern presents a set of main points connected by an underlying
common theme.
B. It is implied by the physical setting or is presumed to be part of the

culture’s shared beliefs, values and norms.
C. A standardized conception or image of a group of people, a stereotype forces a simple pattern upon a
complex mass and assigns a limited number of characteristics to all members of a group.
D. Power distance refers to the degree to which the culture believes that institutional and organizational
power should be distributed unequally and the decisions of the power holders should be challenged
or accepted.
30. What is the Monochronic Time?
A. linear time; is tangible and can be “saved, spent, lost wasted,” etc.
B. vocal cues that accompany spoken language such as volume, rate and pitch.
C. simple, acquired, often erroneous and resistant to change.
D. Schedules and deadlines are sacrosanct, and punctuality is highly regarded.
31. What is the Triangle of Meaning?
A. should be distributed unequally and the decisions of the power holders should be challenged or
accepted.
B. A type of holistic pattern that follows a crest-trough wave pattern where speakers use examples and
stories to slowly build up to the main point at the crest of the wave.
C. Uncertainty avoidance index refers to the extent to which the culture feels threatened by ambiguous,
uncertain situations and tries to avoid them by establishing more structure.
D. to the symbolic, arbitrary nature of language wherein the word spoken or the symbol of the actual
object in nature (the referent), has no actual connection to the object it represents.
32. What is the Definitional Speech?
A. A speech that shows listeners how some process is accomplished or how to perform it themselves.
B. A type of speech in which the speaker attempts to explain or identify the essential qualities or
components of concepts, theories, philosophies, or issues.
C. A speech in which the primary purpose is to provide the audience with information that they did not
D. Speeches which aim to convince an audience to think or behave in a particular way.
33. What is an Epideictic Speech?
A. A speech of introduction is a brief presentation used to introduce the main speaker of an event and to
inspire the audience to listen to that speaker.
B. A technique used in ceremonial speaking to enhance feelings of familiarity and closeness.
C. This is a ceremonial speech intended to praise or blame.
D. A technique in ceremonial speaking used to give benefit to the audience, amplify emotion, and
exceed audience expectations.
34. What is the Negotiating Strategy?
A. The overall approach you take when you exchange proposals and counterproposals with another
person when discussing a settlement to a conflict.
B. A structured conversation among a small group of people who gather to accomplish a specific task.
C. The process of creating meanings in the minds of others.
D. An abbreviated version of the preparation outline.
35. What is the Speaking Group?
A. The decreased effort of each individual member as the number of a group increases.
B. A structured conversation among a small group of people who gather to accomplish a specific task.
C. A coordinated group of people organized to work together to achieve a specific, common goal.
D. A collection of three or more speakers who come together to accomplish pre-assigned message
content goals.
36. What is the Cohesiveness?
A. A coordinated group of people organized to work together to achieve a specific, common goal.
B. A series of short speeches, usually informative, on various aspects of the same general topic.
Audience questions often follow.
C. The tendency for a group to stick together and remain unified in the pursuit of its instrumental
objectives.
D. The process of creating meanings in the minds of others.
37. What is the Group Communication?
A. The process of creating meanings in the minds of others.
B. An abbreviated version of the preparation outline.
C. A coordinated group of people organized to work together to achieve a specific, common goal.
D. A collection of three or more speakers who come together to accomplish pre-assigned message
content goals.
38. What is the Concrete Word?
A. The words, nonverbal behavior, or other signals transmitted from one person to another.
B. Words that refer to ideas or concepts that are removed from material reality.
C. A word that describes a tangible object that can be perceived through the senses.
D. The process of listening to words and interpreting the words so they are associated with a mental
image.
39. What is an Ethical Communication?
A. An exchange of responsible and trustworthy messages determined by our

moral principles.
B. Rules of acceptable conduct, that when followed, promote values such as trust, good behavior,
fairness and/or kindness.
C. Ethics is the process of determining what is good or bad, right or wrong in a moral dilemma.
D. Ethical feedback is descriptive and explanatory feedback for a speaker.
40. What is the Plagiarism?
A. any sentence that shares learned information in the speaker’s own words.
B. when one passes off another’s work as his/her own or neglects to cite a source for his/her
information.
C. that occurs when a speaker uses an entire work that is not his/her own.
D. the recognition of important issues that affect societies.
41. What is the Primacy Effect?
A. One sentence or statement that succinctly and accurately lets the audience know what the speech
will be about and what the speaker plans to accomplish in the speech.
B. According to this principle, audiences are likely to remember what they hear or read last.
C. When a speaker asks a question that is not meant to be answered out loud, or a question for which
the audience already knows the answer. This is often used as a way to get an audience to think about
the topic.
D. According to this principle, audiences are likely to remember what they hear or read first.
42. What is the Recency Effect?
the topic.
43. What is the Rhetorical Question?
the topic.
44. What is the meaning of Thesis?
the topic.
45. What is the meaning of Jargon?
A. The specialized language of a group or profession.
B. Attempts to reproduce what is in our minds in the minds of our audience.
C. The means by which we communicate—a system of symbols we use to form messages.
D. The use of moderate exaggeration for effect.
46. What is the meaning of Hyperbole?

47. What is the Language means for?
48. Similes is stand for ___________
A. Type of language that most people understand but that is not considered acceptable in formal or
polite conversation.
B. Powerless phrases such as “I thought we should,” “I sort of think,” or “Maybe we should” that
communicate uncertainty
C. Comparisons made by speaking of one thing in terms of another using the word “like” or “as” to make
the comparison.
D. Type of language that most people understand but that is not considered acceptable in formal or
polite conversation.
49. What is an Alliteration?
A. Comparisons made by speaking of one thing in terms of another.
B. The repetition of the initial sounds of words.
C. Words or phrases used in informal speech but not typically used in formal speech.
D. Attempts to reproduce what is in our minds in the minds of our audience.
50. What is the Heterosexist Language?
A. Language that unnecessarily identifies sex or linguistically erases females through the use of man-
linked terms and/or the use of “he” or “man” as generics.
B. Language such as “male nurse” that suggests a person is deviating from the “normal” person who
would do a particular job and implies that someone’s sex is relevant to a particular job.
C. The specialized language of a group or profession.
D. Language that assumes the heterosexual orientation of a person or group of people.
51. What is the Scrutiny Fear?
A. reference refers to the context, viewpoint, or set of presuppositions or of evaluative criteria within
which a person's perception and thinking seem always to occur.
B. Derived from the external situation within which individuals find themselves.
C. Anxiety resulting from being in a situation where one is being watched or observed, or where one
perceives themselves as being watched, is known as scrutiny fear.
D. Anxiety that is aligned with, or a manifestation of, an individual’s personality.
52. What is the State-Anxiety?
D. Anxiety that is aligned with, or a manifestation of, an individual’s personality.
53. What is the Systematic De-sensitization?
D. A multi-stage, therapeutic regimen to help patients deal with phobias through coping mechanisms.
54. What is the Trait-Anxiety?
C. Anxiety that is aligned with, or a manifestation of, an individual’s personality.
D. A multi-stage, therapeutic regimen to help patients deal with phobias through coping mechanisms.
55. What is the meaning of Dialect?
A. The accent, inflection, intonation and sound quality of a speaker’s voice. Also known as enunciation.
B. A variety of language, cant or jargon that is set apart from other varieties of the same language by
grammar, vocabulary or patterns of speech sounds.
C. The execution of a speech in front of an audience.
D. The characteristic quality of the sound of one’s voice.
56.
This is the basic elements for?

A. Public Speaking B. Happiness C. Nature D. Wisdom
57. One of the most common examples of a manuscript speech is ____________
A. a political figure delivering a speech that has been written by another person.
B. a brief speech that provides the main speaker’s qualifications.
C. for special occasions are prepared for a specific occasion.
D. the largest part of the speech, where you provide the audience with the major supporting materials.
58. What are the personal, professional and public benefits of enhancing your public speaking skills?
A. Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
B. Effective public speaking skills can help with career advancement, as they indicate creativity, critical
thinking skills, leadership abilities, poise, and professionalism, qualities which are very valuable for
the job market. Speaking at events and conferences is a good way of building credibility.
C. A strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between

organizations and their publics.
D. This is one of the most important reasons why businesses should encourage their employees to
clearly communicate with one another when working together.
59. What is the similar between the linear and transactional model of communication?
A. Both are the communication.
B. Linear is a one-way channel, and transactional is two-way communication.
C. In the linear model, the sender communicates to the receiver. In the transactional model there are
two people communicating to one another simultaneously.
D. Linear is very basic, whereas, transactional builds upon it.

60.
What is the Transactional Models?
A. usually described along a few major dimensions: message (what type of things are communicated),
source/emissor/sender/encoder (by whom), form (in which form), channel (through which medium),
destination/receiver/decoder (to whom).
B. the exchange of messages between sender and receiver where each take turns to send or receive
messages.
C. communication as a perfect transaction of a message from the sender to the receiver.
D. communication as the act of sending a message to a receiver, and the feelings and thoughts of the
receiver upon interpreting the message.

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Exercise 6

teach an audience (Carlson, 2005).

A. Humor B. Story telling C. The formation D. Conformity

2. Approach the Visual Learners with______________

3. Approach the Aural Learners with______________

pictures, and different spatial arrangements

and collections of samples

pictures, and different spatial arrangements

and collections of samples

5. Approach the Kinesthetic Learners with____________

pictures, and different spatial arrangements

and collections of samples

6. What is an Informative Speech?

8. What is a Demonstration Speech?

C. Very recent or unusual supporting ideas.

10. What is an Information Overload?

D. The speaker’s overall goal, objective, or intent: to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.

12. What is the Credibility?

13. What is the Speeches to Actuate?

A. The proposition you want the audience to accept.

C. Persuasive speeches which seek to establish agreement about a particular topic.

D. Persuasive speeches which seek to change or motivate particular behaviors.

14. What is the Evaluation Criteria?

A. A set of standards for judging the merit of a proposition.

B. Foundational evidence which supports a claim, such as examples, statistics, or testimony.

C. The (often unstated) connection between data and claim.

D. The art of influencing or reinforcing people’s beliefs, attitudes, values, or actions.

A. The use of emotional appeals to persuade an audience.

B. The process of formulating an argument by moving from specific instances to a generalization.

D. The current situation.

16. What is an Inductive Reasoning?

B. The process of formulating an argument by moving from specific instances to a generalization.

D. The art of influencing or reinforcing people’s beliefs, attitudes, values, or actions.

17. What is a Commencement Speech?

C. It is given by a well-known person of local, national, or international acclaim to mark a university or

D. This is a ceremonial speech intended to praise or blame.

of the award being given.

19. What is the debate?

B. A structured argument in which participants speak for or against a pre-announced proposition.

D. An abbreviated version of the preparation outline.

20. What is the Vocational Presentations?

B. Presentations related to a specific occupation.

A. naturally chemically B. Exercising C. Poetry D. performances

A. The rate, pace, or rhythm of speech.

B. Reading the text of a speech word for word.

C. A speech delivered without previous preparation.

D. Variations, turns and slides in pitch to achieve meaning.

23. What is an Articulation?

A. The act of producing clear, precise and distinct speech.

C. To say with exactly the same words.

D. The execution of a speech in front of an audience.

24. What is the Vocalized Pauses?

A. Variations, turns and slides in pitch to achieve meaning.

B. The execution of a speech in front of an audience.

What is the name of this diagram?

A. Triangle of Meaning B. Equilateral Triangle

C. Triangle Inequality Theorem D. Congruent Triangle

A. styles B. Communication C. silent D. cultures

28. What is an Individualism-Collectivism?

B. A denotative meaning is the socially agreed conventional meaning found in a dictionary.

D. All main points will be united by one theme.

B. It is implied by the physical setting or is presumed to be part of the

30. What is the Monochronic Time?