an act of reciting.

a reciting or repeating of something from memory, esp. formally or publicly.

oral response by a pupil or pupils to a teacher on a prepared lesson.

a period of classroom instruction.

an elocutionary delivery of a piece of poetry or prose, without the text, before an audience.

a piece so delivered or for such delivery.

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address , appeal , declaiming , delivery , discourse , discoursing , discussion , exercise , holding forth , lecture , monologue , narrating , narration , oration , passage , performance , piece , playing , proclamation , recital , recounting , rehearsal , rendering , report , selection , soliloquizing , speaking , talk , telling