Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun declamation

2 senses of declamation

Sense 1
declamation -- (vehement oratory)
       => oratory -- (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory")

Sense 2
declamation -- (recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric)
       => recitation, recital, reading -- (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems")