Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 14 AIL 1322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Aside
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The idea
An aside is a short remark delivered to the audience, or to one character, which the others on stage are conventionally unable to hear. The glossary has no headword. It is the comic counterpart of the soliloquy and it works on the same convention of sincerity.
In practice
Others on stage cannot hear it.
Where people slip
The glossary omits this too.
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