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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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Now that shrill declamation is wearing decidedly thin with an electorate that is waking up to this overrated suburban solicitor.
The fruity gravitas of the traditional actor's declamation had become a liability rather than an asset.
We protested against the old manner of acting and against theatricality, against artificial pathos and declamation.
But this should not be taken as evidence that the acting was mere declamation without emotion.
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.
Aeneas's opening declamation continues for nine more lines in the same fashion, and this speech is typical of all his others throughout the play.

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