dramatic monologue
noun
: a literary work (such as a poem) in which a speaker's character is revealed in a monologue usually addressed to a second person
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Conversations tend to happen in snappy banter or dramatic monologues laden with jungle metaphors.
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Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made the venerable genre of the dramatic monologue speak in a modern voice, and whose translations brought the work of Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet and dozens of other French writers to an Anglophone audience, died on Thursday in Manhattan.
—New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
This novel, hovering somewhere between the older epistolary structure and pure dramatic monologue—between correspondence and a playscript—becomes magically liberated from the more burdensome narrative machinery, that wheezing apparatus of persuasion and pastness.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
With Seth Meyers writer Ben Warheit managed to find a new take on the McRib: a dramatic monologue from the perspective of its son.
—Vulture, 4 Mar. 2022
When Jenna was 7 years old, her mom filmed her reciting a dramatic monologue and posted it on Facebook.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
Each dramatic monologue is filmed simply and intimately.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
There’s no emotion, no tears, and no dramatic monologue as Brianna mechanically reports that her husband is dead and has his body removed from her house.
—Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2021
Have each kid come up with a cool dramatic monologue.
—Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2020
Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made the venerable genre of the dramatic monologue speak in a modern voice, and whose translations brought the work of Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet and dozens of other French writers to an Anglophone audience, died on Thursday in Manhattan.
—New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
This novel, hovering somewhere between the older epistolary structure and pure dramatic monologue—between correspondence and a playscript—becomes magically liberated from the more burdensome narrative machinery, that wheezing apparatus of persuasion and pastness.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
With Seth Meyers writer Ben Warheit managed to find a new take on the McRib: a dramatic monologue from the perspective of its son.
—Vulture, 4 Mar. 2022
When Jenna was 7 years old, her mom filmed her reciting a dramatic monologue and posted it on Facebook.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
Each dramatic monologue is filmed simply and intimately.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
There’s no emotion, no tears, and no dramatic monologue as Brianna mechanically reports that her husband is dead and has his body removed from her house.
—Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2021
Have each kid come up with a cool dramatic monologue.
—Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2020
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