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- noun Plural form of
monologue . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
monologue .
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Examples
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Blair Hurley of The Creative Writing Corner, says the challenge with writing interior monologues is two fold: thinking often does not occur in grammatically correct sentences.
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They maintain monologues instead of encouraging dialogues.
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Something that keeps on coming up in my internal monologues is the issue of when to use despite and when to use in spite of.
Despite and in spite of: a grammatical detective story « Motivated Grammar 2008
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Something that keeps on coming up in my internal monologues is the issue of when to use despite and when to use in spite of.
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And if you’d like to see Conan’s absolute shredding of NBC the past couple of nights, watch the opening monologues from the following shows, plus the interview with Ricky Gervais from last night where they both ripped apart the network:
Jay Leno Gets THE TONIGHT SHOW Back; I’m Still with Coco – Collider.com 2010
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I think the randomness of the internal monologues is distracting, the characters are all walking cliches, the pacing of the Glee Club itself is rather confusing (we’re not that many episodes in and it seems like several of the members have already quit and returned).
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Although the monologues were the kind of things these characters would say, they nonetheless seemed crowbarred in, rather than just arising from the character. i think character has to come first; character makes the plot "a man's character is his fate"; one's sense of the world should just arise from all this.
Plot and thought 2010
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The monologues were a hit with the fifth-graders, and after some urging from parents and colleagues, Schlitz sent Good Masters!
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The monologues were a hit with the fifth-graders, and after some urging from parents and colleagues, Schlitz sent Good Masters!
Thoughts on Newbery: More on Schlitz’s Fairy Tale « educating alice 2008
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– My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
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