Communications exist between two people who are known as the:

• A. Sender and receiver
• B. Listener and speaker
• C. Source and destination
• D. Communicator and audience

Answer: (A)

In a two-person exchange, the roles are the sender and the receiver. The sender is the person who creates and encodes the message, then sends it through a chosen channel. The receiver is the person who gets the message and decodes or interprets it. This pairing directly describes who originates and who interprets the information, which is why it’s the best fit for describing a basic communication interaction.

The other phrases describe behavior or roles in certain contexts but don’t pinpoint the two equivalent roles in the information-transfer process: listener and speaker focus on who’s actively listening versus talking, source and destination are general terms that can apply to non-human endpoints, and communicator and audience imply a one-to-many or audience-centered scenario rather than a simple two-person exchange.