Declamation

n.	1.	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. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. - Macaulay.
	2.	A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
	3.	Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.

Noun	1.	declamation - vehement oratory
	2.	declamation - recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric

declaim, recitation, recite