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?

the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences.

the narrator is able to see into two character’s heads.

the narrator is addressing the audience directly.

the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic.

The narrator is using long, interconnected sentences.

Explanation:

This excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an example of a dramatic monologue. The text is a monologue because the speaker is giving a sort of speech. He is talking to himself exclusively, without intervention from any other character. Moreover, the text has a dramatic tone as the speaker uses long, interconnected sentences.

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "