Ways of Representing Characters’ Thoughts and Speech

Narrative Report=3rd person narrator reports information in his or her voice. (e.g. He wondered if she loved him.)

Direct Discourse=Directly represented speech (e.g. “Does she love me,” he wondered.)

Free indirect discourse=3rd person (usually omniscient) narrator represents thought through the character’s (s’) voice(s). (e.g. Ms. Dalloway said she would by the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her.)

 

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