Dictionary Definition
peroration
Noun
1 a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
2 (rhetoric) the concluding section of an
oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
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English
Etymology
Adopted from the perorare (“the winding up of a speech”).Pronunciation
- /pɛrɒ'reıʃǝn/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The concluding section of a discourse, either written or verbal, in which the orator or writer sums up and commends his topic to his audience, particularly as used in the technical sense of a component of ancient Roman oratorical delivery.
- A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
PS,
Parthian shot, Z, addendum, address, after-dinner speech,
afterthought,
allocution, apodosis, appendix, back matter, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, chalk talk,
chorus, coda, codicil, colophon, conclusion, consequence, consummation, continuance, continuation, crack of
doom, culmination,
curtain, curtains, death, debate, decease, declamation, denouement, destination, destiny, diatribe, doom, double take, dying words,
effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eulogy, exhortation, expiration, fate, filibuster, final solution,
final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, follow-through,
follow-up, forensic,
forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, goal, harangue, hortatory address,
inaugural, inaugural
address, invective,
izzard, jeremiad, last, last breath, last gasp, last
things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, omega, oration, parting shot, payoff, pep talk, period, philippic, pitch, postface, postfix, postlude, postscript, prepared speech,
prepared text, public speech, quietus, reading, recital, recitation, refrain, resolution, resting place,
sales talk, salutatory, salutatory
address, say, screed, second thought, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequelant, sequent, sequitur, set speech, speech, speechification,
speeching, stoppage, stopping place,
subscript, suffix, supplement, swan song,
tag, talk, talkathon, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory
address, windup