Oratory
Of address.
Addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory".
This concept's ID is @1~38684
Contains
- declamation
Vehement oratory.
- oration
An instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values".
- keynote speech
A speech setting forth the keynote.
- nomination
An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run...
- epideictic oratory
A type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people; "Pericles'...
- stump speech
Political oratory.
- salutatory address
An opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation ex...
- valediction
A farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding...