Chapter 14 Flashcards

1
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The manner in which one conveys messages through the spoken word

A

Oral style

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2
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Using language that adapts to the needs, interests, knowledge, and attitudes of the audience

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Speaking appropriately

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3
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Language used to reduce the psychological distance between you and your audience

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Verbal immediacy

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4
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How the information can be used now

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Timeliness

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5
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Information in relation to listeners personal space

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Proximity

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6
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Background, knowledge, attitudes, experiences, and philosophies shared by speaker and audience

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Common ground

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7
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The confidence an audience placed in the truthfulness of what a speaker says

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Credibility

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8
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Words used that apply to one co-cultural group as though they represent everyone

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Generic language

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9
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Words that are changed because of the sex, race, or other group characteristics of the individual

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Nonparallel language

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10
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The addition of sex, race, age, or other group designations to a description

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Marking

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11
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When one emphasizes one persons relationship to another when doing so is not necessary to make the point

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Irrelevant association

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12
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Using words that convey your meaning precisely

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Speaking clearly

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13
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Words that narrow what is understood from a general category to a particular item or group within it

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Specific language

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14
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The unique technical terminology of a trade or profession

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Jargon

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15
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Informal, nonstandard vocabulary and definitions assigned to words by a social group or subculture

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Slang

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16
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Unnecessary words interjected to fill moments of silence

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Vocalized pauses

17
Q

Words that are full of life

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Vivid language

18
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Words that appeal to seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling

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Sensory language

19
Q

Make striking comparisons between things that are not obviously alike

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Rhetorical figures of speech

20
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Combines ideas in a particular way

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Rhetorical structures of speech

21
Q

A direct comparison of the similar things using the words like or as

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Simile

22
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An implied comparison between two unlike things, expressed without using like or as

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Metaphor

23
Q

An extended metaphor

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Analogy

24
Q

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are near one another

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Alliteration

25
Q

The repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or phrases

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Assonance

26
Q

The use of words that sound like the things they stand for

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Onomatopoeia

27
Q

Attributing human qualities to a concept or an inanimate object

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Personification

28
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Restating words, phrases, or sentences for emphasis

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Repetition

29
Q

Combining contrasting ideas in the same sentence

A

Antithesis