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What is a peroration?

What is a peroration? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The concluding section of a discourse, either written or oral, 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.
  2. A discourse or rhetorical argument in general.
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Next comes the protracted peroration on the rank of Duke versus the rank of Prince.
George's final chapters amount to an eloquent but protracted peroration, liberally laced with philosophical speculation.
The playing is good enough, and the engineering is better, yet the final peroration does remind me of a rush hour traffic jam in New York City.
He brings his peroration to a close at this point, the frogs lingering as an image of the sacred.
The triumphant peroration at the end is almost hair-raising in its eminent sense of nationalism.
One moment he is in the middle of a peroration about horizons, and the next he is inexplicably talking about beautiful garbage cans.

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