SOLILOQUY in a Sentence

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The soliloquy is a device used by the dramatist to reveal a character's innermost thoughts and emotions.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLILOQUY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
soliloquy
 n.  talking to oneself; act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to audience
Classic Sentence:
1  As the boards shuddered under her weight, the soliloquy she had been muttering in the front hall grew louder and louder, coming clearly to the ears of the family in the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She had hurried on through her story, with a wild, passionate utterance; sometimes seeming to address it to Tom, and sometimes speaking as in a soliloquy.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  It was the woman Cassy, who had stolen upon his soliloquy.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  He soliloquized the while, for it is an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
5  Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey of young men around him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
6  Hamlet's soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
7  To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
Example Sentence:
1  The soliloquy is a device used by the dramatist to reveal a character's innermost thoughts and emotions.