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level: Level 1

Questions and Answers List

level questions: Level 1

Question	Answer
Communicating with yourself through your thoughts	Intrapersonal Communication
Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience	Audience Analysis:
System you use to prepare a speech	Speech-planning process:
Communication between people about general information, such as saying “hi” to someone in the hallway	Impersonal Communication:
Process of giving a speech to the audience	Speech-making process:
Using various vocal techniques so you sound a bit more dramatic than you would in casual conversation	Speaking expressively:
Language techniques that create and hold audience attention and help audience members remember what you said in your speech	Rhetorical devices:
To make more confident and assertive	Empower:
Communication between two people who have a relationship with each other	Interpersonal Communication:
Stealing and passing off the ideas, words, or created works of someone else as your own	Plagiarism:
A set of moral principles that a society, group or individual holds that distinguish right from wrong and good behavior from bad behavior	Ethics:
The way you stand when giving a speech and the way you use your eyes, face and hands	Nonverbal Communication:
A formal presentation made by a speaker to an audience	Public Speaking:
Receiving spoken communication from another person and making an effort to hear and understand what the person is saying	Listening
Length of time you can concentrate and listen effectively	Attention span
An unchanging tone without rise or fall in the speaker’s voice	Monotone
Evaluate what the speaker is saying and decide on the value of the message	Critical listening
The ability to assign accurate meaning to what was said	Understanding
Being able to recall and retain the information you heard	Remembering
Includes identifying how ideas are organized, asking questions, silently paraphrasing, watching nonverbal clues and taking notes	Active listening
Restating the speakers meaning in your own words	Paraphrase
Investigating a subject to learn the facts about it	Research
Your experience or education that qualify you to speak with authority on a specific subject	Credentials
First-hand accounts that you conduct or those written by people who were part of the original event or research	Primary source
A question you ask during an interview that results from the answers to your primary questions	Follow-up question
Broad based questions that ask the interviewee to provide perspective, ideas, information, values, goals or opinions	Open question
Narrowly focused questions that require only brief answers such as yes or no	Closed question
Questions asked in a way that does not direct a person’s answer	Neutral question
Questions asked in a way that suggest you have a preferred answer	Leading question
The process of evaluating what you have heard to determine a speech’s completeness	Critical analysis
A speaker’s ability to inspire trust and belief	Credibility
A formal assessment of a speech that requires you to analyze and evaluate a speech’s effectiveness according to how well the speaker meets specific key criteria	Critique
An analysis of a speech that evaluates how well a speaker meets a specific speaking goal while following the rules for good speaking and recommends how the speech might be improved	Constructive critique
A strategy for achieving your speech goals.	Speech Plan
A statement of what you want your audience to know, believe or do.	Speech Goal
Process of writing your speech to meet the needs and interests of the listeners	Audience adaptation
Characteristics of a group of people	Demographics
A plan of main points and supporting detail that you want to cover in your speech	Outline
A method of arranging things in relation to when they happen in time	Chronological order
A method of arranging information by subjects, facts or points	Topical order
An object, picture, photo, chart or other image that the audience can see	Visual aid
A form of nonverbal communication that occurs when two people look at one another for a few seconds	Eye contact
A lively, energetic, enthusiastic and dynamic delivery	Animated delivery
Speaking so the audience can make out what you are saying	Speak clearly
How high or low the sound of your voice is	Pitch
The tone that distinguishes your voice from everyone else’s	Quality of voice
The speech habits of people from a specific country, region of a country or even a state or city.	Accent
The way you use your mouth and lips to form words	Articulation
The variety you create in your voice through changing pitch, volume and rate; the expressing of certain words ; and using pauses	Vocal expressiveness
To emphasize certain words by speaking them more loudly than they rest of the sentence	Stress
A moment of silence that enhances the meaning of an idea	Pause
How you move your hands, arms and fingers	Gestures
Changing the position of your entire body	Movement