PERORATION (peroro, I wind up a speech) is the concluding portion of an oration, in which all that the orator had insisted on throughout his discourse is urged afresh with greater vehemence and passion. The peroration con-
sists of two parts; the recapitulation, in which the substance of what was diffused throughout the speech is briefly collected, and summed up with new force and weight; and the appeal to the passions, which is so peculiar to the peroration that the masters of the art call this portion sedes affectuum.