#oratory  addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
  supertype:  #address.speech_act__addres  a formal spoken communication delivered to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
  subtype:  #keynote_speech__keynotespeech__keynote_address  a speech setting forth the keynote
  subtype:  #nominating_speech__nominating_address__nomination  an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
  subtype:  #oration  an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values"
  subtype:  #declamation  vehement oratory
     subtype:  #harangue__rant__ranting  a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
        subtype:  #screed  a long monotonous harangue
     subtype:  #raving  declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs"
  subtype:  #stump_speech__stumpspeech  political oratory
  subtype:  #valedictory_address__valediction__valedictory  a farewell oration delivered by the most outstanding member of a graduating class

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