Deck 7: Integrating Support

Question 1

The primary use of ______ is to support specific points, to engage the audience.

A) examples
B) definitions
C) analogies
D) statistics

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The primary use of ______ is to explain words or concepts.

A) examples
B) definitions
C) analogies
D) statistics

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The primary use of ______ is to promote understanding via comparisons and contrasts.

A) examples
B) definitions
C) analogies
D) statistics

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The primary use of ______ is to strengthen claims and reinforce facts.

A) examples
B) definitions
C) analogies
D) statistics

Question 5

The primary use of ______ is to clarify, to evoke a sensory response.

A) examples
B) explanations and descriptions
C) analogies
D) testimony

Question 6

The primary use of ______ is to increase believability and credibility.

A) examples
B) explanations and descriptions
C) analogies
D) testimony

Question 7

Which of the following are true for short examples?

A) They support a general argument.
B) They are typically a paragraph or more in length.
C) When used in a series, they gain power.
D) Short examples are equivalent to thesis statements.

Question 8

Extended examples are also sometimes known as ______.

A) illustrations
B) episodes
C) stories
D) metaphors

Question 9

When you use examples that have not actually occurred into your speeches, you are using ______ examples.

A) hypothetical
B) false
C) theoretical
D) fictional

Question 10

In order for ______ to fulfill their purpose, audiences must accept that the fictional scenarios you create could really happen.

A) analogies
B) hypothetical examples
C) definitions
D) descriptions

Question 11

Which of the following is not a question you should ask yourself when assessing your examples?

A) Is the example universal?
B) Is the example vivid?
C) Does the example clarify your message?
D) Will your listeners be bored by the example?

Question 12

______ examples are very much like stories.

A) Extended
B) Short
C) Hyperbolic
D) Metaphoric

Question 13

In her speech, Jean provides an overview of the symptoms of a disease, and this facilitates the audience's understanding of the respective disease. Jean uses ______.

A) an explanation
B) a definition
C) a citation
D) a script

Question 14

Speakers use descriptions for which of the following?

A) to produce fresh and striking word pictures
B) to provoke sensory reactions
C) to create greater message vividness
D) all of these

Question 15

Why are definitions useful to your audience?

A) They provide easier content for audience members to follow.
B) They can trick your audience into believing your message.
C) They can facilitate audience acceptance of a speaker's ideas.
D) They help your audience follow the outline of your speech.

Question 16

A definition does which of the following?

A) They provide easier content for audience members to follow.
B) They can trick your audience into believing your message.
C) They help your audience follow the outline of your speech.
D) They help bridge cultural divides.

Question 17

______ are designed to clarify intended meanings of concepts.

A) Descriptions
B) Definitions
C) Explanations
D) Analogies

Question 18

Which of the following is a question that you can ask yourself in order to assess your definition?

A) Does my definition contribute to the overall goal and purpose of my speech?
B) Is my definition easily understood?
C) Am I consistent in the way I define or explain a term or problem?
D) All of these are questions you can ask yourself.

Question 19

A/an ______ functions to increase understanding through comparison and contrast.

A) definition
B) explanation
C) analogy
D) hypothetical example

Question 20

A ______ compares two things from similar classes, for example, two viruses, two novels, or two crises.

A) literal analogy
B) metaphorical analogy
C) figurative analogy
D) hypothetical analogy

Question 21

A ______ compares two things that are distinctively dissimilar and that at first appear to have little in common with each other.

A) literal analogy
B) metaphorical analogy
C) figurative analogy
D) hypothetical analogy

Question 22

Which of the following is a question you should ask yourself when assessing your use of statistics?

A) Is it all right if I don't cite my source?
B) Am I being totally honest in my use of these statistics?
C) Have I backed up every claim with statistics?
D) Are the statistics I used convincing?

Question 23

Factual information offered by biased sources may contain ______.

A) omissions
B) facts
C) the truth
D) definitions

Question 24

When speakers use the opinions of others either to support positions they are taking or to reinforce claims they are making, they are using ______.

A) credibility
B) sources
C) testimony
D) statistics

Question 25

______ testimony is provided by sources recognized as authorities on your topic.

A) Professional
B) Expert
C) Specialty
D) Official

Question 26

A set of statistics cited in a speech can help to establish the problem's magnitude by adding ______.

A) context
B) organization
C) interpretation
D) definitions

Question 27

When you present the opinions of people who are not necessarily recognized authorities, but "ordinary people" who have firsthand experience with the subject, you are presenting peer or ______ testimony.

A) expert
B) lay
C) normal
D) stranger

Question 28

When watching a speech, the speaker should keep in mind that the audience members will have access only to the sources they identify ______.

A) through visuals
B) through reference pages
C) orally
D) on their own

Question 29

In order for hypothetical examples to fulfill their purpose, audiences must accept that the ______ you create could really happen.

A) fictional scenarios
B) truths
C) narrative images
D) real scenarios

Question 30

Expert testimony is provided by those cognized as ______ on your topic.

A) contributors
B) authorities
C) speakers
D) writers

Question 31

The primary use of ______ is to support specific points, to engage the audience.

Question 32

The primary use of ______ is to explain words and concepts.

Question 33

You can use ______ examples to support a specific point.

Question 34

Rather than being totally contrived, the hypothetical situations you cite will be a ______ of actual situations, people, or events.

Question 35

______ examples are very much like stories.

Question 36

The use of ______ is to promote understanding via comparisons and contrasts.

Question 37

While speakers use ______ to clarify the unfamiliar for their receivers, they use ______ to produce fresh and striking word pictures designed to provoke sensory reaction.

Question 38

A good ______ should not under-or-over explain, but facilitate audience understanding.

Question 39

Definitions help bridge ______, enhance audience understanding, and facilitate audience acceptance of a speaker's ideas.

Question 40

The two types of analogies are ______ and figurative.

Question 41

A ______ analogy compares two things that at first appear to have little in common with each other.

Question 42

The ______ is the number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items.

Question 43

A set of statistics cited in a speech can help to establish the problem's magnitude by adding ______.

Question 44

______ testimony is provided by sources recognized as authorities on your topic.

Question 45

When speakers use the opinions of others either to support positions they are taking or to reinforce claims they are making, they are using ______.

Question 46

______ or lay testimony comes from people who are not recognized as authorities, but who have firsthand experience with the subject.

Question 47

Expert testimony occurs when you cite an authority and establish his or her ______.

Question 48

For speeches, testimony often works well because it lets the speaker borrow someone else's ______.

Question 49

Keep in mind that your audience members will have access only to the sources you identify ______.

Question 50

By touching audience members in the way a generalization never could, an illustration helps the speaker pull listeners into the speech.

Question 51

You don't need to tell your audience when an example you are using is hypothetical.

Question 52

Hypothetical examples are intended to trick your listeners into believing something that is not true.

Question 53

Extended examples are very much like stories.

Question 54

The primary use of explanations and descriptions is to clarify and/or to evoke a sensory response.

Question 55

The primary use of analogies is to explain words and concepts.

Question 56

Definitions help bridge cultural divides and enhance audience understanding.

Question 57

The primary use of analogies is to explain what words mean.

Question 58

The two types of analogies are literal and figurative.

Question 59

Literal analogies are those that compare two things that first appear to have little in common with each other.

Question 60

"A horror movie is like a fairy tale on steroids" is an example of a figurative analogy.

Question 61

Testimony is like borrowing someone else's credibility.

Question 62

The statistics you choose to use can increase the impact of your points.

Question 63

The mean is the number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items.

Question 64

The number obtained from adding all the numbers in the series and dividing that by the number of items is called the median.

Question 65

Presenting your statistics visually can make it easier for your audience to understand.

Question 66

Expert testimony comes from "ordinary people" and provides the audience with the insight from those who have "been there."

Question 67

Testimony does not work because you are taking someone else's credibility.

Question 68

Peer or lay testimony comes from people who are not recognized as authorities, but who have firsthand experience with the subject.

Question 69

Supporting materials are evaluated twice: initially by the speaker, and subsequently by receivers.

Question 70

Quoting an archeologist while giving a speech on the new discovery of fossil remains in New Zealand is an example of expert testimony.

Question 71

The audience members will have access only to the sources the speaker identifies through visuals.

Question 72

The range measures the dispersion of values.

Question 73

A percentage is a part of the whole expressed in thousands.

Question 74

Speakers use figurative analogies to awaken the collective imagination of the audience-to prod them into accepting that two things that appear to have little, if anything, in common, actually share one or more vital similarities.

Question 75

In statistics, the mean is the number that occurs most frequently in a list of values.

Question 76

What are the different types of examples? Define each.

Question 77

What are narrative examples?

Question 78

How can hypothetical examples be used efficiently?

Question 79

How can a speaker assess the power of their examples?

Question 80

Define analogies and offer two examples.