Synonyms: declamation
Definition: vehement oratory
Similar words: oratory
Definition: addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
Usage: he loved the sound of his own oratory
Synonyms: declamation
Definition: recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
Similar words: recital, recitation, reading
Definition: a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
Usage: the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems