One character who is either alone onstage or thinks that he or she is alone onstage and it speaking his or her thoughts aloud, not to the audience, but to him or herself so that the audience can hear what he or she is thinking
Soliloquy
When the audience knows more than some of the characters on stage
Dramatic Irony
A character that speaks under his or her breath so that only the audience can hear it, often directly to the audience, or it can be two characters talking quietly while other characters are onstage. In Shakespeare’s plays the passage is typ
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