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interior monologue

NOUN
expression of character's thoughts
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Quickly editing my interior monologue, as to not admit psychosis: “That’s my dog.”

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

In pages-long, often dialogue-heavy sections without paragraph breaks, quotation marks or full stops, Petterson shares his character’s interior monologue.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2022

Lawyers appearing before the court sometimes resented his elaborate hypothetical questions, which could resemble an interior monologue with a point discernible only to him.

From New York Times Jan. 26, 2022

Peppered with amusing person-on-the-street commentary, set off in their own smaller frames, this is a woman's interior monologue brought to life as both candid semi-autobiographical memoir and cinematic fantasia.

From Washington Post Oct. 5, 2020

The two friends conjectured his mental labor from his concentrated look, and the low exclamations which were escaping him like the echoes of an interior monologue.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan




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