Word Finder - soliloquy

definition

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

example

At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.

definition

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

synonyms

• monologue

definition

(very rare) To issue a soliloquy.

Look back to the end of his final soliloquy.

The man seemed lost in introspection, as if delivering a soliloquy.

We experience the relativities of ' truth ' in the last soliloquy of Othello.

The soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts.

The opening soliloquy which appears below establishes Richard 's character at the outset of the play.

The opening soliloquy which appears below establishes Richard's character at the outset of the play.

As everyone retires, the fairies perform their blessings and Puck delivers a tender epilog soliloquy.

I quote, as an example, the following unguarded soliloquy of James Bryce.

His touching soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts.

It is worth reminding the class of the " Frailty thy name is woman " observation from Hamlet 's first soliloquy.

We experience the relativities of "truth" in the last soliloquy of Othello.

Does this soliloquy move the play forward in any way (e.g. give us a new insight into the prince 's thinking)?

In the same year he also published The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody, and in the following year Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author.

Subsequently, if your employment at the organization was a rewarding experience, there's still no need to write a two-page soliloquy.

There is one other long soliloquy in the play?

He wrote a chronicle of the monastery and several biographies - the life of Gerhard Groot, of Florentius Radewyn, of a Flemish lady St Louise, of Groot's original disciples; a number of tracts on the monastic life - The Monk's Alphabet, The Discipline of Cloisters, A Dialogue of Novices, The Life of the Good Monk, The Monk's Epitaph, Sermons to Novices, Sermons to Monks, The Solitary Life, On Silence, On Poverty, Humility and Patience; two tracts for young people - A Manual of Doctrine for the Young, and A Manual for Children; and books for edification - On True Compunction, The Garden of Roses, The Valley of Lilies, The Consolation of the Poor and the Sick, The Faithful Dispenser, The Soul's Soliloquy, The Hospital of the Poor.