Vehement oratory.

Roget 582: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation^†, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.    oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy etc. 589; allocution etc. 586; conversation etc. 588; salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].    oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence^†; burst of eloquence; facundity^†; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum [Lat.]; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi [Lat.].    speaker etc. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix^†, oratress^†; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer^†, improvisatore^†.    ... show more

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c^†.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence^†; altiloquence etc. adj.^†; declamation, teratology^†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity.    inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.    flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.    big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality^†; Minerva press.    phrasemonger; euphuist^†, euphemist.    ... show more

Recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric.