Declamation /(?)/

Dec·la·ma·tion

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.
  2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
  3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.