Speech

Chapter 3: Listening

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Choose the best word, words, or phrase from the bank to correctly complete each sentence.

Word List
  
paraphrase
interrupt
filters
passive listening
discriminative
appreciative
faking attention
false comparisons
tuning out dull topics
empathic

1.

When you allow one person to do all the work in a conversation you are demonstrating .
2.

When you spend most of your listening time thinking about what you want to say, you are more likely to .
3.

To combat , create a mental paraphrase of the speaker is saying and repeat key points to yourself periodically throughout the conversation.
4.

Instead of , listen for a joke, an idea, a quote or something else you can use yourself in conversation.
5.

When you listen to music you are exercising listening.
6.

Counselors and good friends practice listening, encouraging people to talk freely without fear of embarrassment.
7.

If you are listening for your friend's voice in a crowd, you must practice listening.
8.

Watch out for , a rhetorical device that compares unlike things such as apples with oranges.
9.

When you , you repeat a message in your own words based on what you think you have heard.
10.

Keep in mind that information goes through many as it passes from speaker to listener, and you must condition yourself to keep an open mind and be respectful of the speaker.
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