Some find the three dramatic techniques confusing but here is the full knowledge about them: while soliloquy means talking to oneself, "aside" is addressing the audience without the knowledge of other characters on stage. This could be a gesture of any kind or mere expression of the face. In Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards, aside is intermittently used. Mrs Burofusem, a Londoner and an extra-mile African addict of the English culture continually pressurizes her husband who is a custodian of his own culture to be behaving like the white, kiss like the white, smoke like the white, etc., etc. When the man gets almost chocked, he heaves a sigh of displeasure "ahhhh" in aside to the audience in order to avoid another round of arguments.
Stream of Consciousness is however a stream of a character's thought presented to the audience by the author. It's mostly found in prose or theatrical production. It's usually found in a prose work written in third person omniscient. The author presents what the character thinks in their mind directly to the audience as if audible.
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