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Interior monologue

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Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A poem structured as the inner thoughts of a character or speaker

Detailed Definition
Interior monologue in poetry is a technique that renders a character’s or speaker’s unfiltered thoughts, feelings, and perceptions in a continuous, often stream-of-consciousness style; it bypasses narrative mediation to provide direct psychological access, revealing inner conflict, memory, or subconscious processes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Poem as inner thought monologue; Browning’s dramatic monologues; T.S. Eliot’s “Prufrock” interior narrations; Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness passages
Additional Notes
Interior monologue: A poetic technique that presents a character's thoughts and feelings directly as they occur, often in a stream-of-consciousness style, without the conventional framework of a narrator or explicit dialogue tags; key for psychological depth.
Also Known As
stream of consciousness internal monologue self-talk narrative Soliloquy Stream of Consciousness (early, genre-blur) introspective verse
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