declamation
dec·la·ma·tion
noun
2.
recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric
Origin
From French déclamation, from Latin dēclāmātiō, dēclāmātiōnem, from dēclāmō, dēclāmāre; see declaim.
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