Moreover, recitations of mythical stories and ritual performances provide the model for the 'good' life worthy of imitation.
On saint-day celebrations (mawlids) and other festive occasions, public recitations make the poetry available to a larger audience.
And they concluded their recitations with a series of didactic pronouncements about these past events and their relations to present people's behavior and circumstances.
Thus, one should not expect clustering into groups of about four items for a task like recitation of the alphabet.
Could the mass recitation of woe also be understood as a form of self-exculpation?
The inclusion of tasks beyond word recitation naturally involves suprasegmental features as well as lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic fluency.
The repetitions also serve as large-scale variants of the repetitions endemic to traditional bïlina recitation.
Success was very dependent on the recitation of the verses by the actors.