elocutionist
Trained public speaker
An elocutionist is a person who studies or teaches elocution—the art of clear, expressive public speaking.
The term belongs to an earlier era when formal speech training emphasized precise pronunciation, gesture, and vocal control.
Elocutionists gave performances and instructed students in dramatic recitation: The elocutionist coached her on projecting to the back row.
Skilled public speaker
- public speakerOne who addresses gatherings
- reciterOne who speaks aloud
- declaimerOne who speaks formally
- lecturerOne who teaches formally
rhetorician · monologist · presenter · narrator · speechmaker · spokesman · preacher · announcer
Clarity of spoken words
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- articulationClear vocal expression
- dictionChoice of words
- projectionSomething that extends outward
delivery · inflection · modulation · intonation · pacing · emphasis · phrasing · breath control
Oral delivery from memory
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- dramatic readingTheatrical spoken performance
- declamationForceful, theatrical speaking
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
oration · spoken word · interpretation · rendition · presentation · dramatization · reading aloud · poetry reading
Venue for public discourse
- ChautauquaItinerant lecture circuit origin
- VictorianOf a prim era
- finishing schoolInstitution teaching etiquette
- deportmentManner and conduct
Convincing through reasoning
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
- flourishTo grow vigorously
- ethosCollective moral character
pathos · logos · argumentation · discourse · forensics · expressiveness · fluency · magniloquence
orator
Skilled public speaker
- public speakerOne who addresses gatherings
- reciterOne who speaks aloud
- declaimerOne who speaks formally
lecturer · rhetorician · monologist · presenter · narrator · speechmaker · spokesman · preacher · announcer · keynote speaker
enunciation
Clarity of spoken words
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- articulationClear vocal expression
- dictionChoice of words
projection · delivery · inflection · modulation · intonation · pacing · emphasis · phrasing · breath control · resonance
recitation
Oral delivery from memory
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
- dramatic readingTheatrical spoken performance
- declamationForceful, theatrical speaking
soliloquy · oration · spoken word · interpretation · rendition · presentation · dramatization · reading aloud · poetry reading · character voice
lyceum
Venue for public discourse
- ChautauquaItinerant lecture circuit origin
- VictorianOf a prim era
- finishing schoolInstitution teaching etiquette
persuasion
Convincing through reasoning
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
- flourishTo grow vigorously
ethos · pathos · logos · argumentation · discourse · forensics · expressiveness · fluency · magniloquence
- persuaderspersuader, orator, orators, public speaker, speechmaker
- voice professionalsvoice coach, vocal coach, voice actor, voice teacher, speech coach
- speech expertsspeech therapist, speech pathologist, SLP, voice therapist, speech coach
- language professionalslexicographer, translator, interpreter, editor, proofreader
eloquent, eloquence, loquacious, colloquial, elocution, grandiloquent, interlocutor, circumlocution, eloquently