Both Uses
monologue
in
Look Homeward, Angel
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- Across the street again, before the windows of the Van W. Yeats Shoe Company, the Reverend J. Brooks Gall, Amherst ('61), and as loyal a Deke as ever breathed, but looking only sixty of his seventy-three years, paused in his brisk walk, and engaged in sprightly monologue, three of his fellow Boy Scouts—the Messrs. Lewis Monk, seventeen, Bruce Rogers, thirteen, and Malcolm Hodges, fourteen.†
Chpt 2monologue = a long uninterrupted speech
- She continued in amiable monologue for another half hour, her eyes probing about swiftly all the time at the two dark figures before her.†
Chpt 3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(monologue) a long speech by one person, whether it's a dramatic speech in a play, a run-on talk that keeps others from getting a word in, or a comedian's continuous stream of jokes and stories delivered aloneAlthough less frequently used, "monolog" is also a correct spelling in the United States.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)