Soliloquy

Word SOLILOQUY
Character 9
Hyphenation so lil o quy
Pronunciations /səˈlɪləkwi/

Definitions and meanings of "Soliloquy"

What do we mean by soliloquy?

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters. noun

A specific speech or piece of writing in this form. noun

The act of speaking to oneself. noun

A talking to one's self; a discourse or talk by a person who is alone, or which is not addressed to any one even when others are present. noun

A written composition containing such a talk or discourse, or what purports to be one. noun

The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue. noun

A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself. noun

The act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to the audience. noun

A speech or written discourse in this form. noun

To issue a soliloquy. verb

A (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections noun

Speech you make to yourself noun

The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

(authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.

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The word "soliloquy" in example sentences

The lengthy trumpet solo near the end, which the program notes advise is an orchestrated soliloquy from the opera on a John Donne poem, was only the most prominent example. ❋ Post (2010)

Says Greenburg, noting the show also starred Brett Favre when his Hamlet-like soliloquy is once again being treated as news: "I'm happy with the show — an excellent show." ❋ Unknown (2009)

She or he has a fundamental interest in its practicability, in fact his or her own identity and degree of self-awareness depends upon it: the conversation of soliloquy is "our sovereign remedy and gymnastic method" (84). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The “to be or not to be” soliloquy is presented against a vast seascape where waves crash wildly into massive shoreline stones. ❋ Unknown (2006)

1. 4Lady Macbeth speaks in soliloquy about driving a implicitly squeamish Mac. to seize a throne. ❋ Admin (2009)

He had a 400-word soliloquy that was all over the place, from supposed public puzzlement over some of the judge's decisions, a quip about the senator's son going to University of Pennsylvania, followed by the senator's recollection of speaking at Princeton. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“You speak a soliloquy as if you were on the stage, and seem to account me a cipher,” said the old admiral suddenly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In narrative, no doubt, the writer has the alternative of telling that his personages thought so and so, inferred thus and thus, and arrived at such and such a conclusion; but the soliloquy is a more concise and spirited mode of communicating the same information; and therefore thus communed, or thus might have communed, the Lord of Glenvarloch with his own mind. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But there is still another way of avoiding the soliloquy, which is sometimes used with good results. ❋ Various (N/A)

These few remarks are called a soliloquy, being addressed rather to the world in general than to any particular person on the stage. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The last words of the soliloquy, which is _wholly_ concerned with this subject, are, ❋ Unknown (1893)

His chin rests upon his hands with an air of meditation; and gradually his thoughts rise up in soliloquy, which is suffered to invade no ear but ours: -- ❋ William Gilmore Simms (1838)

"You speak a soliloquy as if you were on the stage, and seem to account me a cipher," said the old admiral suddenly. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

The following soliloquy, which is overladen with gloom and a weariness of life, is, by this remark, rendered intelligible. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

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