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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by famous actresses it's just their way of giving back

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yeah actress's generous people Okay check out following passage by

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chekhov from siegel Remember jonathan livingston do you shammond circuit

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gotta love these names you know never seen wheel of

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fortune beyond being a russian name Here you are So

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papa who tiresome thiss transfusion and we're scrolling going got

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this is long russians like there's no dieting word All

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right we done okay which sentence is part of a

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soliloquy so little liquid that thing And here the potential

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answers man All right Well knowing basic dramatic turns like

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say soliloquy is super helpful here But even if you

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thought you were too cool for drama club you can

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still nail this question There's a clue in the first

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three letters of the words soul lil a quick the

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soul s o l reminds us of the word solo

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which we all know described when somebody does something by

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him or herself So this gives us a hint that

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a soliloquy is something a character says when they're alone

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alone except for the audience anyway So if the audience

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weren't there to hear it well nobody would hear it

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at all And will a qui is spoken in the

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theater but no one's there to hear it Does it

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make a sound deep Thoughts from shmoop Okay now that

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we know what it's like with all we have to

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do is scan through the passage and find the one

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quote that spoken one in character is all by their

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lonesome so we can eliminate a because when sham ref

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says my dear madam he is speaking to madame arkadina

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Option b is also a no go when arkadina gets

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all diva and says that she's booking it back to

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moscow She's going off on shahm wrath they'll see isn't

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part of a soliloquy either When nina exclaims how could

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he refuse anything to matter Mcadoo you know the famous

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actress well she's gossiping with polina alright looks like choice

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d's The way to go the stage directions give us

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a big hint that we've got a soliloquy on our

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hands by illness that nina is alone when she starts

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reflecting on how famous people are well people too For

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the record we don't advise that you do A lot

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of talking yourself in public is when they haul you

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away in advance they probably won't believe you were just 00:02:33.533 --> [endTime] a soliloquy izing Yeah

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