declamation vs listening

declamation

noun
  • The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public. 

  • Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense. 

  • A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. 

  • The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges. 

listening

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

adj
  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

How often have the words declamation and listening occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )