The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.
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 act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
The material recited.
A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.