Flashcard sets with a 'aside' term meaning 'in drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time. when hamlet first appears onstage, for example, his aside "a little more than kin, and less than kind!" gives the audience a strong sense of his alienation from king claudius. see also soliloquy.'

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