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US
/ˈmɑnəˌɫɔɡ/
]
[ UK /mˈɒnəʊlˌɒɡ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒnəʊlˌɒɡ/ ]
NOUN
- speech you make to yourself
- a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
- a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)
How To Use monologue In A Sentence
- Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
- His monologue casts light on the common experience of the stereotypical man who is unemotional, uncaring, and cold.
- The comedy star's character delivers a moving monologue to camera in the final scene. The Sun
- He reaches an international audience by providing vivid photo travelogues and a soundtrack - a film context, as he calls it - for his lengthy monologues.
- The second is that he's plagued by interior monologues. Times, Sunday Times
- The play starts off with an actor rehearsing a monologue for an acting competition.
- She delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice.
- Cabaret songs were not the only type of entertainment they were treated to; pantomimes, monologues, and even shadow plays augmented the presentations.
- Not 12 pages of internal monologue. Times, Sunday Times
- See, when liberals take over the schools and make everyone read Rigoberta Menchu and the Vagina Monologues, basic astroengineering goes out the window! Nick Mamatas' Journal