| verb | recite in elocution |
| verb | repeat aloud from memory “she recited a poem” |
| verb | render verbally, “recite a poem” |
| verb | narrate or give a detailed account of “Tell what happened” |
| verb | specify individually “She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered” |
| declamation | noun | recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric |
| recitation | noun | a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance |
| recital | noun | a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance |
| tale | noun | a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program |
| teller | noun | someone who tells a story |
| telling | noun | an act of narration |
| narrative | adjective | consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story |
| narration | noun | (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth |
| narrator | noun | someone who tells a story |
| recounting | noun | an act of narration |
| enumeration | noun | a numbered list |
| itemization | noun | the act of making a list of items |
| item | noun | a small part that can be considered separately from the whole |
| itemisation | noun | the act of making a list of items |