Multiple choice

Directions: Find a word which substitutes the words underlined in the sentence.

He is well-known for his art of presenting speech in a dramatic and passionate way during school competitions.

  1. recitation

  2. declamation

  3. oration

  4. elocution

  5. rhetoric
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Declamation is the act of ‘uttering or delivering words in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience’. Declamation is thus the apt word substitution for the underlined words - reciting in a dramatic and passionate way.

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