Representation of Speech in Fiction: From the diegetic (of telling, of relating) to the mimetic (of "reality," of things as they are):
* Diegetic summary; a bare report that a speech act has occurred (degrees of this “bareness”)
* Diegetic summary, less diegetic; to some degree represents, not merely mentions, a speech event by naming specifics of the conversation
* Indirect discourse; a paraphrase of the content of a speech event ignoring style or form
* Indirect discourse; more mimetic, preserving or reproducing aspects of the style of utterance
* Free Indirect discourse; between direct and indirect discourse; often no cues that give the speech act a direct sense of belonging to someone
* Direct Discourse; a quotation of a monologue or dialogue; creates the illusion of pure mimesis
* Free direct discourse; direct discourse without orthographic cues; typical of first person interior monologue
Drawn from Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
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