ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A monologue is ____
A
A conversation between characters
B
Small movable objects
C
Private thoughts said out loud by one character
D
The hero’s goal or job
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A soliloquy (q.v.) is a type of monologue in which a character directly addresses an audience or speaks his thoughts aloud while alone or while the other actors keep silent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dialogue can refer to spoken lines in a dramatic performance such as a play, a film, or a television show. It is also any conversation between two or more people. On the written page, dialogue between characters is usually enclosed by quotation marks.

Detailed explanation-3: -dramatic monologue, a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker’s history and psychological insight into his character.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people, or speech that is written down as part of a piece of narrative text. It can be presented as reported speech, direct speech (using speech marks), or as a Play Script.

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