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Test Strategic Silence: The Art of Pausing for Emphasis
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QUESTION 1: How does a strategic pause work to capture the audience's attention?
It creates confusion and forces people to ask questions
Allows the speaker to rest and catch their breath
Break the expected pattern and create a space of expectation
It shows that the speaker has forgotten what he was going to say
QUESTION 2: What is one of the most important applications of using a pause before a key idea?
Allows the speaker to subtly change the subject
Fill in the time if the presentation is too short
Confuses the audience to keep them alert
It acts as a "sound underline" that gives more weight and impact to the idea
QUESTION 3: Why is it crucial to pause after asking a rhetorical question or presenting a complex concept?
To give the audience the necessary time to think, assimilate and internalize the information
To indicate that the presentation has ended
To show that the speaker does not know the answer
To speed up the pace of the presentation
QUESTION 4: What does a speaker who is comfortable with silence project?
Nervousness and lack of preparation
Calm, authority and absolute confidence
Lack of interest in the topic and the audience
You are about to ask a difficult question
5th QUESTION: According to the text, a nervous speaker tends to
Take many long, deliberate pauses
Speak in a very low tone of voice
Speeding up and filling every second with words or filler words
Make constant eye contact with the audience
QUESTION 6: What does the ability to deliberately pause demonstrate?
That the speaker is not sure of what he is saying
That the speaker is trying to remember his script
That the speech is too long and needs cutting
Total mastery of the material and the pace of the presentation
7th QUESTION: In oral communication, silence is
An active tool, not a void
A sign of weakness and lack of arguments
Something to be avoided at all costs
An indication that communication has failed
QUESTION 8: What effect does a pause have on the listener's brain?
It disconnects him from the speech due to lack of stimulus
It causes it to re-engage almost instinctively
It generates a feeling of anxiety and haste
It has no perceptible effect on your attention
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