ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -soliloquy: speech given by a character who is alone on stage to reveal the character’s thoughts and feelings. aside: character’s remark to the audience or another character that others on stage aren’t supposed to hear. Also used to reveal character’s thoughts.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a story or play, a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can’t hear. This act is referred to as an aside in literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention, the audience is to realize that the character’s speech is unheard by the other characters on stage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Soliloquy is the word we traditionally use to refer to a monologue that is delivered when the character is alone. In Shakespeare’s plays, for example, there are many speeches that begin with a character saying something like “Now I am alone.” And you know you are about to experience a soliloquy.

Detailed explanation-5: -When a character in a drama speaks his or her words aloud it is called dialogue (which literally means to express through words). This word is used whether it is a character alone or a group of characters talking to each other.