SET 1

Question 1

Psychological Noise

Answer 1

Refers to things that are going on in your head as you engage in the communication process - can be questions, issues, personal opinions, stereotypes, and perspectives that get in the way of you accepting what the sender is saying.

Question 2

Receiver

Answer 2

A message moves from sender through a channel to the receiver, who completes the communication process by interpreting and assigning meaning to the message (decoding).

Question 3

Puffery

Answer 3

Speaker with overstate a point to stress it and make it more appealing.

Question 4

Rate

Answer 4

How fast or slow we speak - slowly may tell the audience you are unprepared or not interested in the speech.

Question 5

Audience Analysis

Answer 5

The process of determining through non-verbal clues whether the audience is actually interested in what you have to say.

Question 6

Aside

Answer 6

A dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.

Question 7

Meter

Answer 7

The rhythm and pacing of a poem.

Question 8

Scansion

Answer 8

The act of determining and graphically representing the metrical character of a line or verse.