declamation | | |
n. (communication) | 1. declamation | vehement oratory. |
| ~ philippic, tirade, broadside | a speech of violent denunciation. |
| ~ oratory | addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous).; "he loved the sound of his own oratory" |
| ~ harangue, rant, ranting | a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion. |
| ~ raving | declaiming wildly.; "the raving of maniacs" |
n. (communication) | 2. declamation | recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric. |
| ~ recitation, recital, reading | a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance.; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" |
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