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How to pronounce soliloquy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms monologue
Type of speech, voice communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, oral communication
Derivation soliloquize
Type Words
Type of actor's line, speech, words
Derivation soliloquize

Examples of soliloquy

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Postlethwaite's delivery of the final soliloquy brings you out in goose pimples.
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Kelly, challenged about his five-star soliloquy, reacted with mock incredulity.
From the dailynews.com
Bush started the proceedings with a soliloquy that threatened to go on forever.
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Internal thoughts, if expressed, are given voice through an aside or soliloquy.
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No one is consumed by a pillowy fireball or gasps out a soliloquy before expiring.
From the time.com
America may be just a business, as Jackie reminds us in a closing soliloquy.
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It seems unlikely that this concluding soliloquy has ever been done as a two-hander.
From the guardian.co.uk
Then he went through a soliloquy of the house specialities, the most expensive items.
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I think this is the most frightening soliloquy I ever heard in a movie.
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  • Speech you make to yourself
  • A (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
  • A soliloquy is a device often used in drama whereby a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters. Soliloquy is distinct from monologue and aside.
  • Soliloquy is a 1991 album by McCoy Tyner released on the Blue Note label. Like Revelations (1987) and Things Ain't What They Used to Be (1989) it was recorded at Merkin Hall and features solo performances by Tyner. ...
  • "Soliloquy" is a 1945 song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for their 1945 musical Carousel, where it was introduced by John Raitt.
  • The act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to the audience; A speech or written discourse in this form; To issue a soliloquy
  • (Soliloquies) (Soliloquiorum libri duo)
  • In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud. In the line "To be, or not to be, that is the question:" which begins the famous soliloquy from Act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Hamlet questions whether or not life is worth living, and speaks of the ...
  • A monologue in a drama used to give the audience information and to develop the speaker's character. It is typically a projection of the speaker's innermost thoughts. Usually delivered while the speaker is alone on stage, a soliloquy is intended to present an illusion of unspoken reflection. ...