monologue

noun

1. A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
2. A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
3. A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.

verb

1. To deliver a monologue.

   “Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.”