Free indirect discourse: A narrative technique blending third-person narration with a character's voice, thoughts, and diction without quotation marks.
How to apply it: Analyze how free indirect discourse creates intimacy with a character while maintaining the narrator's external frame.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Short Fiction II
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