Direct discourse Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'")
direct quotation.
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(Gram.) , the language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;" correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua.
