Features of a dramatic monologue

• The title is fairly significant (may be ambiguous or humorous).

• Stage directions are used in dramatic monologues to set the scene.

• They often have a narrator (the author must create an individual 'voice' for the narrator.

• The syntax in a dramatic monologue should reflect the style of speech.

• Typical language devices used in dramatic monologues could include;

-Verbal fillers

- Personal idiolect expressions

- Intensifiers

- Euphemisms

- Deliberately vague language

- Unfinished utterances

- Deictic references

- Tag questions

- Contractions