direct discourse
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Material is generally considered to be later, for instance, as it increases in length, detail, and direct discourse, and decreases in Jewish influence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The story proper is written entirely in direct discourse which is really soliloquy, shading sometimes into a kind of ghostly dialog.
From Time Magazine Archive
This artistic suspense is attained partly by the method of direct discourse; which, at the same time, develops the character of the hero.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
Often the Indirect Question represents a Deliberative Subjunctive of the direct discourse; as,— nesciō quid faciam, I do not know what to do.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
The writer has changed it all to the direct discourse.
From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Marcus L. Hansen
