declamation > define

noun

• Vehement oratory.
• Recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric. .

• (n.) Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
• (n.) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
• (n.) A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.