The word 'soliloquy' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a long speech made by a character to him/herself in a play or other work of literature. For example: Hamlet's famous soliloquy, beginning "To be, or not to be..." is well-known throughout literature.
It was as if she herself had read Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses in a past life and was still reeling from the bawdiness of it.
Mostly Cameron was on the defensive here, but his mini soliloquy about the wonders of investment (answer five, not answer four as I wrong said earlier) was reasonably impressive, and so he held Miliband at bay.
Iago says it in his first soliloquy".
One version of "Hamlet" includes a soliloquy in which Hamlet nails the very essence of his own character—his habit of "thinking too precisely on the event".
In her soliloquy she contemplates Bloom's flawed character, their unhappy marriage, her lovers, men's frailty and women's vulnerability.
He makes it clear in a soliloquy at the very beginning that he's only fooling around with Falstaff and the others in order to "show more goodly and attract more eyes" when the moment comes to take power.
Following a race designed to find the most fuel-efficient supercar, Jeremy Clarkson, one of the hosts, gave a short soliloquy on how motorists could cut their fuel bills by changing their style of driving.
Just as you would not use the word "ain't" in a job interview, most pupils know not to write about Hamlet's "2B or not 2B" soliloquy in term papers.
In a soliloquy, the killer confides his every thought as he plots and carries out the assassination.Her characters are sometimes as grotesque as those of some other novelists of the Southern School.
Barr reckoned that this was because unlike the "roar or stamp" of Picasso's pictures, Klee's "whisper a soliloquy".
This is what Mr Whedon did so well in the first film, subtly differentiating between his heroes with a pompous soliloquy here, an amusing betrayal of inner insecurities there.
