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A (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
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soliloquy
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Wikipedia
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Soliloquy (from Latin: "talking by oneself") is a device often used in drama. Soliloquy may also refer to: Soliloquy (2002 film) , a 2002 film by Jacques Zanetti, starring Diahnne Abbott and Drena De Niro Soliloquy (2003 film) , a 2003 film by Todd Albertson ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Late Latin soliloquium "a talking to oneself," from Latin solus "alone" (see sole (adj.)) + loqui "speak" (see locution ). Also used in translation of Latin "Liber Soliloquiorum," a treatise by Augustine, who is said to have coined the word, ...
WordNet
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n. speech you make to yourself [syn: monologue ] a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context drama English) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience. 2 A speech or written discourse in this form. vb. (context very rare English) To issue a soliloquy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soliloquy \So*lil"o*quy\, n.; pl. Soliloquies . [L. soliloquium; solus alone + loqui to speak. See Sole ly, and Loquacious .] The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue. Lovers are always allowed ...
Usage examples of soliloquy.
In a low voice, the man above them was reciting the familiar soliloquy from Hamlet.
Banquo, the whole scene has been very carefully ordered so that Macbeth, the convention of the soliloquy having changed over four centuries, will not seem to be within hearing distance of his brother officers.
I suggest this as an explanation for the fact that some whales deliver a continuous soliloquy, without repeating themselves, for a full eight minutes.
Here is a very over-simplified example, this time expressed in the form of a subjective soliloquy rather than a computer simulation.
As always, the subjective soliloquy is intended for illustration only.
Balcazar seldom invited any kind of riposte when he was in soliloquy mode.
As he rode back his soliloquy was broken by a strange sound from beyond the belt of trees.
I interpret it, occurs in the soliloquy he utters outside the banqueting hall at Inverness, which gives a paradigm in little of his general movement in the play from intense psychic activity in anticipation of an action to the stripping away and narrowing down that every action entails as it creates its own devouring vortex.
Likewise, he contemplates in the soliloquy the gap between the performance of a deed and its consequences as a deed performed, but soon all deeds begin to show an ultimate incompleteness.
In his soliloquy before the regicide, Macbeth acknowledges that his deed will entail all the kinds of violence civilization has been struggling to suppress since it first began: violence between the guest and the host, violence by subjects against a monarch, and violence among kinspeople.
After a brief soliloquy, in which Prometheus expresses the passionate wish that he might impart feeling to his lifeless images, Epimetheus appears as a second representative of the gods.
Acts Goethe subsequently added, as the opening of a third Act, a soliloquy of Prometheus, written in the following year.
He has stated this intention in a soliloquy before the battle and now he sends an officer to do the job.
Hamlet enters, musing, with the soliloquy that is the most famous speech in all of Shakespeare spoken at this point.
Falstaff is encountered near Coventry in a long soliloquy that shows him at his very worst, and in a situation where the audience must find it hard indeed to feel anything but disgust.