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a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g.,
he said `I am a fool'
he said `I am a fool'
How To Use direct discourse In A Sentence
- This is a strange sub-species of free indirect discourse. The Times Literary Supplement
- The two women express their feelings in copious direct discourse. Literary Study
- Little hope seems to be offered that this destruction is anything other than complete, an effect implied in part by a shift in the tone of the free indirect discourse which has established the narrative viewpoint of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four
- In that sense, both childlike speech and slangy expression operate for Wallace as kin of free indirect discourse, here disguising as prose the speech or internal monologue of the author himself, rather than that of a character's. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
- Furthermore , Woolf employed free indirect discourse to achieve subjectivity.
- The analysis of free-indirect discourse has reached a high degree of refinement among narratologists and narrative theorists.
