soliloquy
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Probably in a great many cases, the original impulse which led Browning to plan a soliloquy was a kind of anger mixed with curiosity; possibly the first charcoal sketch of Blougram was a caricature of a priest.
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- noun A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
- noun A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
- noun The act of speaking to oneself.
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- Oliver confesses in soliloquy, once he has dispatched the wrestler Charles with a commission to break Orlando's neck in an upcoming wrestling contest, that he is perplexed by the violence of his dislike for Orlando: 'my soul, yet I know not why, hates nothing more than he'. — Shakespeare
- Berowne, the most voluble of the gentlemen, castigates himself in soliloquy for falling in love with a black-eyed beauty, Rosaline, who will, as wife, be 'like a German clock,/Still a-repair-ing, ever out of frame/And never going aright' (3.1). — Shakespeare
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Probably in a great many cases, the original impulse which led Browning to plan a soliloquy was a kind of anger mixed with curiosity; possibly the first charcoal sketch of Blougram was a caricature of a priest.
— Robert Browning -
In some of the most interesting situations it is in fact even more natural than the oral drama, logically it is more perfect; for the soliloquy is actually thought before us, and the magic of the representation not destroyed by the sound of the human voice at a moment when we all know man never speaks The curtain again rises.
— Vivian Grey -
Oh The end of her soliloquy was a shriek.
— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods
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- Late Latin sōliloquium : Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + Latin loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (sə-lĭlˈə-kwē)/
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