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While preparing presentational aids, fancy print styles can be used in slides for highlighting information.

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Sensory aids enhance a speech using a combination of sight and sound.

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The most compelling persuasive messages appeal more to ethos and pathos than logos.

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Movie clips, television shows, and podcasts are all examples of audio presentational aids.

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Hearing and listening are synonymous with each other.

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Listening style is the conscious style adopted by a person to fit an appropriate situation.

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Before giving a speech, it will help to analyze one’s audience and tailor one’s proposition based on their initial attitude toward the topic.

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In the context of arguing from sign, signs bring about, lead to, or create the claim.

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Sympathy translates our intellectual understanding of what the speaker has experienced into feelings of concern, compassion, and sorrow for that person.

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A proposition means articulating a position with the support of logos, ethos, and pathos.

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In the context of presentational aids, actual objects, models, photographs, drawings and diagrams, maps, charts, and graphs are most likely examples of _____.

a. visual aids

b. audio aids

c. ergonomic aids

d. ergogenic aids

2.

Which of the following is true of audio aids?

a. They can be entirely substituted for a speech.

b. They can be used when a sound cannot be described.

c. They can be used for almost half of the speaking time.

d. They can be used as attention catcher but not as clinchers.

3.

Which of the following statements is true of content-oriented listeners?

a. They fail to evaluate the facts offered as evidence.

b. They notice the inconsistencies that a speaker makes.

c. They are sensitive to their partner’s emotional needs.

d. They elicit more information by asking questions.

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_____ is a persuasive strategy of highlighting your competence, credibility, and good character as a means to convince others to support your position.

a. Logos

b. Eros

c. Ethos

d. Pathos

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Which of the following statements is true of listening apprehension?

a. It helps one in attentively focusing on a message.

b. It increases with the intensity of a message.

c. It is not dependent on any factor other than the message.

d. It increases when one worries about misinterpreting a message.

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Which of the following is true of target audience members who are uninformed about a speaker’s topic?

a. They are more likely to be opposed than in favor.

b. They possess superficial knowledge of the topic but not enough to form an opinion.

c. They do not possess the basic information they need about the topic.

d. They feel that the topic is not relevant to them.

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In the context of listening style, _____ focus on the ultimate point the speaker is trying to make.

a. time-oriented listeners

b. action-oriented listeners

c. content-oriented listeners

d. people-oriented listeners

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Which of the following techniques will help listeners improve their attending skills?

a. Empathizing with the conditions of a speaker

b. Reducing potential distractions from the listening environment

c. Playing intense music to focus on a speech

d. Providing feedback cues when a speaker speaks

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In the context of the types of propositions, a statement that is designed to convince an audience that something did or did not occur is a _____.

a. proposition of fact

b. proposition of value

c. proposition of policy

d. proposition of benefit

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Eric is giving a speech on dolphins. His audience is familiar with the characteristics of dolphins, but they do not know how they communicate with each other. In this scenario, Eric’s audience is:

a. neutral.

b. uninformed.

c. apathetic.

d. indifferent.