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Recitation

noun

Written matter that is recited from memory.

A public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance. Synonyms: reading, recital.

A regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study. Synonyms: class period, course session.

Systematic training by multiple repetitions. Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice, practice session.

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"Recitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... a concluding treat, you expect a formal epilogue, and the summing up of all in a brief recitation; but I will assure you, you are grossly mistaken if you suppose that after such a hodge-podge medley of speech I should be able to recollect anything I have delivered. Beside, as it is an old proverb, I hate a pot-companion with a ...

— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus

... before the school concert. How am I to get up there and recite? You know there is one line in my recitation, 'She waved her lily-white hand,' and I have to wave mine when I say it. Fancy waving a lily-white hand all covered with warts. I've tried every remedy I ever heard of, but nothing does any good. Judy Pineau said if I rubbed them with toad-spit it would ...

— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... told, had cut his throat for love, was borne towards one of the niches in the wall. I heard loud voices, which seemed to proceed from the eastern side of the cemetery, and which, I thought at first, might be the recitation of a funeral service; but no funeral service is said at these graves; and, after a time, I perceived that they came from the windows of a long building which overlooked one side of the burial ground. It was a mad-house. ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

... committees themselves ever became slack, the all-seeing eye of the principal soon detected it and they in turn were "jacked up." Mr. Washington himself had a way of leisurely strolling about day or night into shop, classroom, or laboratory with a stenographer at his elbow. If he thus came upon a recitation in which no illustrative material was used, that teacher would receive within the next few hours a ...

— Booker T. Washington - Builder of a Civilization • Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe

... of her recitation, they all burst out laughing. "Capital!" they shouted. Old lady Chia drained a cup. Yan Yang then went on to remark, "I've got another set; the one on the left is a ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

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