English Explanatory Dictionary

free indirect speech

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The literary device of writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator.

Word forms

free indirect speech

Synonyms

free indirect discourse free indirect style
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