recitation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of reciting memorized materials in a public performance.
• noun The material so presented.
• noun Oral delivery of prepared lessons by a pupil.
• noun The class period within which this delivery occurs.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of reciting or repeating what has been committed to memory; the oral delivery of a composition without the text, especially as a public exercise or performance.
• noun The rehearsal by a pupil or student of a lesson or exercise to a teacher or other person; a meeting of a class for the purpose of being orally examined in a lesson.
• noun In music:
• noun Same as recitative.
• noun Same as reciting-note.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
• noun The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.
• noun (Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
• noun The material recited.
• noun A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun written matter that is recited from memory
• noun a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
• noun a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study
• noun systematic training by multiple repetitions