There are two kinds of indirect<\/span> speech:\u00a0 free and normal.<\/p>\n “What distinguishes free indirect speech from normal indirect speech is the lack of an introductory expression such as ‘He said’ or ‘he thought’.<\/p>\n Free indirect discourse can also be described as a ‘technique of presenting a character’s voice partly mediated by the voice of the author, or, in the words of the French narrative theorist Gerard Genette, ‘the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged<\/em>.’ Randall Stevenson, Modernist Fiction<\/em>.” Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n Examples\u00a0 (Wikipedia):<\/p>\n Quoted<\/strong> or direct speech<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. “And just what pleasure have I found, since I came into this world?” he asked.<\/p>\n Normal<\/strong> indirect speech<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. He asked himself what pleasure he had found since he came into the world.<\/p>\n Free indirect speech<\/strong>:<\/p>\n He laid down his bundle and thought of his misfortune. And just what pleasure had he found, since he came into this world?\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n Is your head spinning? Mine is!<\/p>\n Reading examples of the free indirect style of pov might help:<\/p>\n Jane Austen was one of the first practitioners of free indirect speech with Emma.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The Irish author James Joyce<\/a> also used free indirect speech in works such as “The Dead” (see Dubliners<\/a><\/em>), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/a><\/em>, and Ulysses<\/a>.”\u00a0\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a> No matter what point of view you choose. . . just write!<\/p>\n The Write Spot Blog is part of the Festive Spirit Blog Hop, hosted by Francis H. Powell. To read posts by participating bloggers, click on Francis H. Powell’s Home Page<\/a>. Scroll down, choose a name, click on one and you will magically be transported to creative blog posts.<\/p>\n
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