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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the duke of milan that

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we prefer the duke of milano since he always brings

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the cookies All right check the following passage from the

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tempest Bye Willy shakes right here Member antonio's a bastion

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of tony's basket They're going on about tunis and naples

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raise durable reserve from gillette These things how come people

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don't say me Thinks anymore start All right well this

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excerpt is an example of what And here the potential

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answers Not along absolutely dialogue Meselson all right well we've

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got two characters talking here so we need a word

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that reflects the situation but we don't know the necessary

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vocab Well full not the root words will take us

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a long way For example we can cut choice eh

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Right away monologue because we know that mono comes from

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greek mono so meaning single or alone log actually comes

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from the greek word logos which means speech or word

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So we know that a monologue is when one character

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is speaking Unless these two characters are actually one guy

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with multiple personalities thiss passage can't be a monologue option

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B isn't right either soliloquy comes from the latin solace

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which means alone and low key which means to speak

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so like monologues soliloquies happen on lee when one character

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is speaking fun fact the difference between monologues and soliloquies

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is that in monologues characters talkto other characters while in

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soliloquies characters talk to themselves like in hamlets hole to

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be or not to be thing talking to himself and

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i wonder they thought he was great All right well

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choice dee is also wrong Meselson is actually a french

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phrase that refers to the physical arrangement and general aesthetics

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of a stage production or film Sats lights camera angles

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can all factor into meselson Try using this word as

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much as possible You'll sound smart diesel scent all right

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the correct answer is c dialogue die meaning to and

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we already learned that log means speech so we've got

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two guys speaking right end of discussion Dialogue also refers

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to when multiple characters air speaking but we figure the

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word multi log and just sounded too weird to whoever 00:02:27.153 --> [endTime] came up with

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