Both Uses of

recite
in
Listening for Lions

Nora went around reciting Ophelia's words, "White his shroud as the mountain snow," as if she were truly mad.†
Book 3

We all sat at a common table for meals, and I listened to them recite to one another the list of birds they had seen that day.†
Book 3 *

Definitions:

(1) (recite)
to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem

or:

to say in detail -- especially a list of things
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

The noun form, recitation, normally refers to the act of reciting or to what was recited; however, much more rarely, it can refer to a session in which a teaching assistant reviews and expands on a teacher's lecture.