ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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. It may be addressed to the audience expressly (in character or out) or represent an unspoken thought.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Soliloquy Definition: A soliloquy is a speech that a character delivers unheard by any other characters. You’ll most commonly come across them in plays, particularly in Shakespeare’s works and other Elizabethan plays. But you can also find examples of soliloquies in much more modern drama.

Detailed explanation-4: -Audience: An aside is a direct address to the audience that other characters aren’t privy to, whereas a soliloquy is the act of talking to oneself, regardless of who can hear.

Detailed explanation-5: -Soliloquy (from the Latin solus “alone” and loqui “to speak”) at its most basic level refers to the act of talking to oneself, and more specifically denotes the solo utterance of an actor in a drama. It tends to be used of formal or literary expressions, such as Hamlet’s soliloquies.