Both Uses
soliloquy
in
Wuthering Heights
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- 'It's well the hellish villain has kept his word!' growled my future host, searching the darkness beyond me in expectation of discovering Heathcliff; and then he indulged in a soliloquy of execrations, and threats of what he would have done had the 'fiend' deceived him.†
p. 101.1 *
- Catherine caught and perused it eagerly; then she put a few questions to me concerning the inmates, rational and irrational, of her former home; and gazing towards the hills, murmured in soliloquy: 'I should like to be riding Minny down there!†
p. 217.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(soliloquy) a long speech in which one is talking to oneself; or as a long uninterrupted part of a conversationIn theatre, a soliloquy allows a character to voice their thoughts when they think they are alone, and in that way reveal their thoughts to the audience or other characters who overhear.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)