so·lil·o·quy
plural so·lil·o·quies
Definition of SOLILOQUY (Mirriam-Webster)
1: the act of talking to oneself
2: a dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections
Okay....I love this word! I hear it often and I thought it was a type of rambling conversation, but I really wasn't sure until I looked it up today. Last night I heard it on one of my favorite TV shows, "Brothers and Sisters".....and I thought, Okay, I must look that up... (and then I actually remembered the word without writing it down!)
Probably the most famous example of a soliloquy is Hamlet's:
Okay....I love this word! I hear it often and I thought it was a type of rambling conversation, but I really wasn't sure until I looked it up today. Last night I heard it on one of my favorite TV shows, "Brothers and Sisters".....and I thought, Okay, I must look that up... (and then I actually remembered the word without writing it down!)
Probably the most famous example of a soliloquy is Hamlet's:
"To be or not to be-that is the question
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer"...blah blah blah..
(no disrespect to William... it's just that it goes on and on and on)
I soliloquize often. At least now when my daughter shakes her head, rolls her eyes and looks at me half amused; half pathetically as she catches me soliloquizing yet once more (that day...) -- I can hold my head up with pride and say to her,
"What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a soliloquist before?"
My husband walked into the room whilst I was in the middle of a soliloquy, but the very act of being in the room meant it was a soliloquy no more
ReplyDeleteYou must be the soliloquy master, Mom... Always talking to yourself :) Don't worry, I've heard it's a sign of intelligence!
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