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CAHSEE ELA 8.2 Literary Devices. Which of the following is a characteristic of a soliloquy?

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Time for one of our daily servings of shmoop... Which of the following is a characteristic

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of a soliloquy?

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And here are the potential answers:

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So... what is this question asking?

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It's a vocab word question for "soliloquy."

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Okay... if we already know what a soliloquy is, awesome. We can fill in the appropriate

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bubble and move on with our lives.

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But if we don't know that a soliloquy is the opening of a ton of Shakespeare plays

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-- that annoying speech the actor gives which tells us everything that's about to happen...

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...we might be able to glean what it is just by thinking through the word in little parts.

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Start with the first 3 letters. S, O, L. If we can't break this one down, we might be...

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SOL.

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So... what is "sol" as a root -- well, we may think "sun" -- and that's not

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a bad guess -- there's only ONE sun, son.

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But SOL is also short for... solo. Solemn. In other words... alone.

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Then check out L, O, Q -- another super important set of 3 key letters the gurus of Latin invented

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a zillion years ago.

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LOQ is in the same neighborhood as... loquacious -- a 5 dollar word for talkative.

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So if we put 'em together we can roughly get "alone talker" and if we go back to

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the answer set, we get A, pretty loud and clear.

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As in, "Ain't no one else to talk to."

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