Oral comm testables

Question 1

communication

Answer 1

the action of people sharing information

Question 2

rhetoric

Answer 2

the art of achieving a goal or influencing others through sharing all kinds of symbols

Question 3

message

Answer 3

the main ideas and information a speaker wants to convey

Question 4

symbol

Answer 4

anything that represent something other than itself

Question 5

meaning

Answer 5

significance assigned to experience or phenomena

Question 6

amplification

Answer 6

process of adding volume of supporting details

Question 7

denotative

Answer 7

dictionary/expected meaning

Question 8

connotative

Answer 8

your own meaning from personal experience

Question 9

5 rhetorical canons

Answer 9

Identification- discovery of content of message
arrangement- design of substance of message
style- wording of the word choice that represents content of message
delivery- embodiment of making words come alive
memory- recall how you remember words

Question 10

5 communication contexts

Answer 10

1. intrapersonal- inner dialogue
2. interpersonal- couplet communication
3. group communication- task or goal with a time frame
4. public communication- speaker sets the role
5. Mass communication- shared messages to huge audiences

Question 11

Dramatic Pentab

Answer 11

Act
Agency
Agent
Scene
Purpose

Question 12

9 potential message dimensions

Answer 12

1. Goal - purpose
2. Verbal - word
3. Aural- sound
4. Visual- image
5. olfactory - smell
6. haptic - touch
7. kinetic- movement
8. proxemic- space
9. chronemic- time

Question 13

what is the only way in which human beings share in the purpose of life lived with each other

Answer 13

communication

Question 14

2 of 3 basic purposes of human communication

Answer 14

to inform and persuade

Question 15

4 basic classes of supporting evidence

Answer 15

1. examples
2. facts
3. quotes
4. definitions