A soliloquy is a long speech in a play by one character and it is meant to be heard by only the audience, not the other characters. It usually rhymes.
One of the best-known examples is Hamlet's soliloquy.
It's a situation or a genre of literature in which one discusses the subject with himself. Usually used in context of st. Augustine of Hippo in which Agustine discusses the philosophical matters with a dialectical "partner" which is his mind.
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so·lil·o·quy
[suh-lil-uh-kwee]
- noun, plural-quies 1. speech in a play in which a character speaks as if alone 2. the act of talking to oneself
- Related Form so·lil·o·quize- verb (used with or without object)
Origin:
1595-1605; < LL sōliloquium a talking to oneself, soliloquy, equiv. to sōli- soli-1 + loqu(ī) to speak + -ium -ium; see -y3
Source:
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2011.
a chacter peaking his or her thought aloud while alone on stage
Soliloquy is a dramatic or literary device in which a character talks to himself in order to fill in the audience on his thoughts.
Hamlet spoke the words in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Hamlet spoke the words in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Shakespeares 4 types of writing were solioquy, asides, blank verse, and prologuesIf anyone wrote today the way Shakespeare did, it would be called an archaic style, although of course it was perfectly contemporary at the time Shakespeare wrote it. I would describe it as an ornate style.
Wordsworth deviated from the then traditional formal stylised style of writing by using nature and the diction of the common man. He believed that poetic style should be as simple as everyday language, and that the more one draws on elemental feelings the better or their art.