Give a short and simple definition of "Dramatic Monologue" with at least one example.

A dramatic monologue is text meant to be spoken by a
character in a play, but sometimes this device is used as the "speaking voice" of
dramatic poem or verse.  The monologue reveals a character's point of view or his/her
feelings and should reveal something new to the audience or reader about that
character.  A monologue is different than dialogue in that it is not a back and forth
conversation between two or more characters.  It also differs from a soliloquy which is
spoken by a single character who is alone onstage.  A monologue is spoken by a character
when other characters are present onstage.

Here's a
monologue spoken by Olga from Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters,
the first speech at the very beginning of Act One.

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OLGA

It's just a year since father died last May
the fifth, on your name-day, Irina. It was very cold then, and snowing. I thought I
would never survive it, and you were in a dead faint. And now a year has gone by and we
are already thinking about it without pain, and you are wearing a white dress and your
face is happy. [Clock strikes twelve] And the clock struck just the
same way then. [Pause] I remember that there was music at the
funeral, and they fired a volley in the cemetery. He was a general in command of a
brigade but there were few people present. Of course, it was raining then, raining hard,
and snowing.

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