Archie opened his speech about the benefits of mainstreaming disabled students into the school

system by telling about his sister, who succeeded in high school despite being confined to a wheelchair by
paralysis after a car accident.

This type of introduction relies on
A) an analogy.
B) an anecdote.
C) humor.
D) a rhetorical question.
E) a startling statistic.


B

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Taron loves to dance, so he attends a ballroom class each Monday evening. Taron feels happy after each class, and he thinks it is because he is surrounded by classmates who all have positive attitudes. Which concept explains how Taron's emotions are impacted by attending dance class?

A. emotional contagion B. synchronous communication C. social presence D. social information-processing theory

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If Chelsea looks for only one explanation for the behavior of her friend, then she most likely lacks ________ complexity as a communicator.

A. ethics B. self-awareness C. empathy D. cognitive complexity

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What kind of definition is used when a speaker defines a term by showing how it works or how it is applied in a specific instance?

A) an analogy B) an operational definition C) a classification D) an illustration

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