dramatic monologuenoun [ C ]
US also dramatic monolog uk/drəˌmæt.ɪk ˈmɒn.əl.ɒɡ//drəˌmæt̬.ɪk ˈmɑː.nə.lɑːɡ/a poem written as if someone is speaking to an unseen listener about important events or thoughts
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- alliteration
- antihero
- arch-villain
- baddy
- ballad
- bard
- dramatist
- epigram
- heroine
- iambic
- ingénue
- limerick
- lit
- pantomime
- prose poem
- prosody
- psalm
- quatrain
- revue
- stylistics
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Examples from literature
- But the largest, if not the greatest work in the volume must be sought for, not in the romances, properly speaking, nor in the lyrics, but in the dramatic monologues.
- Clive, the most popular in style, and certainly one of the finest poems in the volume, is a dramatic monologue very much akin, in subject, treatment and form, to the narratives in the first series.
- Hence his persistent use of the dramatic monologue.
- The larger part of the volume consists of dramatic monologues.
- To Browning belongs the credit of having created a new poetic form,—the dramatic monologue.