Direct speech

/daɪɹˈɛkt spˈiːtʃ/

/dɚɹˈɛkt spˈiːtʃ/

Direct speech

the representation of someone's words using quotation marks, presenting their exact utterances as they were spoken or written

Examples

1. There’s about sixty three thousand words in the novel as a whole, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty seven words of those are direct speech.

2. Here we have the bulk of the book in the first person: direct speech.

3. There is a lot of direct speech and lots of dialogue.

4. So direct speech is not over-represented in the novel compared to the first person narration generally.