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Aside, Soliloquy, & Dramatic Monologue

Soliloquy

Soliloquy is a long speech a character gives alone on stage.

Aside

  • part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others
  • Character turns "aside" and shares comment
  • a temporary departure from a main theme or topic, especially a parenthetical comment or remark; short digression

Dramatic Monologue

Dramatic Monologue is when the speaker addresses a silent or absent listener, as if engaged in a private conversation

  • the speaker often reveals his or her own feelings, attitudes, motivations and character traits in a moment of high intensity or deep emotion

Monologue

vs.

Soliloquy

Soliloquies and monologues have one thing in common: they each involve a solitary speaker.

The difference between the two doesn't have to do with who's talking but with who's listening.

A monologue — from the Greek monos ("single") and legein ("to speak") — is a speech given by a single person to an audience.

soliloquy — from the Latin solus ("alone") and loqui ("to speak") — is a speech that one gives to oneself. In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy talks to herself — thinking out loud, as it were — so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally

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