interior monologue
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Sheila’s interior monologue, the show’s most prominent stylistic device, is a constant slam not only of herself but also of the shallowness, stupidity and ugliness of nearly everyone around her.
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In the manner of many one-man plays, “Typical” is a continuous interior monologue; the Alder character narrates his day as if keeping a minute-by-minute journal in lightly rhymed, high-spirited verse.
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In the signature moment, Charlie Brown keeps up an unflagging interior monologue as he attempts to steal home and is ignominiously tagged out, a victim of his own crippling self-consciousness.
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More perplexing was a chatty interior monologue from the perspective of Greta Garbo walking through Manhattan that renders the enigmatic actress a one-dimensional dullard.
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Ford’s mastery of fiction extends to his gift for interior monologue and human speech.
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