monologue vs recitation

monologue

noun
  • A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters. 

  • A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment. 

  • A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. 

verb
  • To deliver a monologue. 

recitation

noun
  • A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung. 

  • The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized. 

  • The material recited. 

  • A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture. 

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