COMS 101 Terms and definitions
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Audience-centered public speakers Ans:
someone who considers and adapts to the
audience at every stage in the public speaking
process
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Causal reasoning Ans: relating to or involving
more events together in such a way as to
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conclude that one or more of the events was
caused by the others
Cause and effect organization Ans: Organization
by sharing a situation and its effects, or a
problem and its causes
Central idea Ans: A definitive point about a topic
Chronological organization Ans: Organization by
time or sequence
Coercion Ans: The use of force to get another
person to think or behave as you wish
Cognitive dissonance Ans: A mental discomfort
when you are presented with information that is
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inconsistent with your current attitudes, beliefs,
values, or behavior
Complexity Ans: Arrangement of ideas from
simplest to most complex
Concrete word Ans: A word that appeals to one
of the five senses and communicates an image
clearly
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Correct words Ans: A word that means what the
speaker intends and is grammatically correct in
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the phrase or sentence in which it appears
Declarative statement Ans: A complete sentence
that makes a statement as opposed to asking a
question
Deductive reasoning Ans: Reasoning from a
general statement or principle to reach a specific
conclusion
Drama - Inversion Ans: Reversing the normal
order of words in a phrase or sentence
Drama - Omission Ans: Leaving nonessential
words out of a phrase or sentence