Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0405 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Dramatic Monologue
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The idea
The glossary defines a dramatic monologue as a poem dramatic because it is a speech presented to an audience, usually of one person, and a monologue because no other character talks. Everything the reader learns arrives through one speaker who cannot be cross-examined.
In practice
One speaker, one listener, no reply.
Where people slip
All evidence passes through the speaker.
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