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Notice how the word soliloquy is a bit like the word 'solo'. This is basically what it is: a solo in drama, where somebody is projecting their inner thoughts. This gives the audience direct access to the character's feelings.
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D. The "fast food mentality," as Mr. Schlosser calls it, has also defaced America's landscape, helped wipe out its small businesses and independent farmers and homogenized people's taste buds to a lowest common denominator.