Threnody vs Soliloquy - What's the difference?
threnody | soliloquy |
A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
* 1879 , (John McElroy), Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons , ch. 44:
* 1973 , Ann Bond, "New Organ Music," The Musical Times , vol. 114, no. 1565, p. 741:
(drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.
A speech or written discourse in this form.
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(very, rare) To issue a soliloquy.
As nouns the difference between threnody and soliloquy
is that threnody is a song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy while soliloquy is (drama) the act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.As a verb soliloquy is
(very|rare) to issue a soliloquy.threnody
English
(wikipedia threnody)Noun
(threnodies)- The fifer actually knew but one tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—and did not know that well. But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call. . . . I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason.
- A strongly personal note runs through Kenneth Leighton's Improvisation (Novello, 35p), which is a threnody in memory of Maurice de Sausm?rez. Gently undulating, cantabile lines of ‘mourning’ alternate with sharp, anguished note-clusters which work up to a fierce paroxysm of grief.
Synonyms
* dirge, elegyDerived terms
* threnodial * threnodic * threnodistsoliloquy
English
(wikipedia soliloquy)Noun
(soliloquies)- At the end of the second act the main villain gave a soliloquy detailing his plans to attack the protagonist.