Which dramatic genre most frequently uses soliloquies?
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Correct answer: Tragedy
Tragedies most frequently employ soliloquies because they need to expose the moral struggles, fatal decisions, and psychological collapse central to tragic character arcs. Comedy and history plays use them far less often.
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