interior monologue

n. A passage of writing presenting a character's inner thoughts and emotions in a direct, sometimes disjointed or fragmentary manner.

interior monologue

n (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a literary attempt to present the mental processes of a character before they are formed into regular patterns of speech or logical sequence. See also stream of consciousness

inte′rior mon′ologue

n. a form of stream-of-consciousness writing that represents the inner thoughts of a character. [1920–25]

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interior monologue - a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologueprose - ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

interior monologue