PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION MODULE 2 TEST
What word is referring to general concepts or ideas? - Answers -abstract
What are words and phrases that are generally characteristic of spoken language and
not of standard written language? - Answers -colloquialisms
What word is referring to specific items or processes you can see or instantly identify? -
Answers -concrete
All languages use what to represent things or ideas? They can be words, pictures, or
nonverbal communication. - Answers -symbols
What words mean that speakers of the same language agree upon the meanings of
these symbols and understand one another? - Answers -social understanding
What word means -all languages have some sort of system by which words can be put
in relation to one another (a.k.a. word order)? - Answers -grammar
What are the 3 Key Components of Style? - Answers -clarity grace economy
What word means select understandable, precise words and phrases? - Answers -
clarity
What word means to express ideas briefly and pointedly (directly)? - Answers -economy
What word means to communicate in an appealing manner? - Answers -grace
What key component of style means to put words in the correct order? - Answers -
clarity
What key component of style means to avoid wordiness and unnecessary explanation?
- Answers -economy
What key component of style means to use parallel structure? - Answers -grace
What key component of style means to avoid awkward phrases? - Answers -grace
What word means anything that people communicate beyond the literal meaning? -
Answers -nonverbal communication
What words mean to use eye contact, gestures, posture, facial expression, and
proxemics as conveyors of feeling? - Answers -body language
What words mean to use movements of the limbs, body, or head that allow a speaker to
emphasize spoken words? - Answers -emphatic gestures
What word is referring to general concepts or ideas? - Answers -abstract
What are words and phrases that are generally characteristic of spoken language and
not of standard written language? - Answers -colloquialisms
What word is referring to specific items or processes you can see or instantly identify? -
Answers -concrete
All languages use what to represent things or ideas? They can be words, pictures, or
nonverbal communication. - Answers -symbols
What words mean that speakers of the same language agree upon the meanings of
these symbols and understand one another? - Answers -social understanding
What word means -all languages have some sort of system by which words can be put
in relation to one another (a.k.a. word order)? - Answers -grammar
What are the 3 Key Components of Style? - Answers -clarity grace economy
What word means select understandable, precise words and phrases? - Answers -
clarity
What word means to express ideas briefly and pointedly (directly)? - Answers -economy
What word means to communicate in an appealing manner? - Answers -grace
What key component of style means to put words in the correct order? - Answers -
clarity
What key component of style means to avoid wordiness and unnecessary explanation?
- Answers -economy
What key component of style means to use parallel structure? - Answers -grace
What key component of style means to avoid awkward phrases? - Answers -grace
What word means anything that people communicate beyond the literal meaning? -
Answers -nonverbal communication
What words mean to use eye contact, gestures, posture, facial expression, and
proxemics as conveyors of feeling? - Answers -body language
What words mean to use movements of the limbs, body, or head that allow a speaker to
emphasize spoken words? - Answers -emphatic gestures
