direct discourse

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direct discourse - a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'")

direct quotation

report, account - the act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple"

indirect discourse - a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool' would be modified to `he said he is a fool'")

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That means the remaining fourteen instances occur in direct discourse with the disciples.

Your, ours, and mine: Jesus' use of the prophetic possessive in the ... by Foster, Robert L. / Biblical Theology Bulletin

Bontemps also uses free direct discourse to produce a narrative "we" that must be read as a shared communal memory.

Black Thunder's call for a conjure response to American Negro Slavery by Lane, Suzanne / African American Review

Lanser proposes a spectrum of phraseological possibilities ranging from purely narrative discourse--the discourse of the narrator from his/her own perspective and in his/her own voice--to the direct discourse of the characters (1981: 187).

Teaching K. A. Porter's "That Tree" by Monton, Elena Ortells / Academic Exchange Quarterly

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