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Unit 3: Interpretations and Perspectives
Quick questions on Reading prose fiction closely: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3
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What is free indirect discourse?Show answer
One of prose fiction's sharpest tools is free indirect discourse, where the narrator's voice blends with a character's thoughts without quotation marks or a tag such as "she thought." The result hovers between report and interiority, letting the text occupy a character's mind while keeping ironic distance. It is a powerful device for sympathy and for quiet judgement, and naming it is a mark of sophisticated reading.
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