MONOLOGUE  

ADDRESS directed towards oneself only.

Hypernym
  • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Rhetorical device locations: 3
  • 論語 「吾何執? 執御乎 執射乎 吾執御矣
  • 論語 「出則事公卿, 入則事父兄 喪事不敢不勉 不為酒困 何有於我哉
  • 論語 「其然? 豈其然乎

    Inner dialogue: Confucius questions what he has just said.