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What is a declamation?

What is a declamation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.
    1. The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.
  2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
  3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.
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In the Pit's small space the loud and unrhythmic declamation was too loud and too clipped.
Then he burst on us with a declamation on all that was wrong in India, and its remedy.
The fruity gravitas of the traditional actor's declamation had become a liability rather than an asset.
Thus Queen Elizabeth I's rousing declamation to her troops at Tilbury in 1588 falls into this category since it is hinged to the crisis of the Spanish Armada.
His booming declamation often manages to override the humorous intent of many of Beckett's lines.
Titchmarsh just isn't programmed for portentous, monumental declamation.

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