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What do you find distinctive about Duffy's use of dramatic monologue? A Dramatic Monologue is describes as a literary, usually verse composition in which a speaker reveals his or her character, often in relation to a critical situation or event, in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener. This incorporates the event being described and revealed through the character they write about as a past time even in there own life. Carol Ann Duffy uses the power of free speech and protest to convey her message by using Dramatic Monologues. These monologues draw attention to the social historical facts of male supremacy that existed as she wrote a selection of her male dominating poems in Britain in 1985-1987 entitled "Standing female nude" and "selling Manhattan". Duffy's collection "Standing female nude includes an explicitly male domineering poems. It is "Standing female nude". This poem becomes distinctive as...

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