direct discourse
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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
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
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 Phelps, William Lyon
The writer has changed it all to the direct discourse.
From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Hansen, Marcus L.
We miss direct discourse of simple human affection about the person, which we find so often in those lay speeches at the grave of which in France they set us nowadays so many good examples.
From Memories and Studies by James, Henry
