recitation vs statement

recitation

noun
  • The material recited. 

  • The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized. 

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

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

statement

noun
  • A declaration or remark. 

  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

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