Read the excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: How is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue?

A dramatic monologue presents one speaker talking to a listener, who may remain silent. The phrase “Let us go” shows Prufrock addressing someone and inviting that person to accompany him, so the excerpt is an example of direct address. The other choices describe sentence structure, multiple perspectives, or shifts in topic, not the key feature shown here.

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