Roy Pascal’s book The Dual Voice explores this narrative technique and is subtitled for it. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this three-word technique that conflates the third-person narrator and first-person character’s titular dual voices to convey the mental life and speech of characters.
ANSWER: free indirect discourse [or FID; or free indirect speech; or free indirect style; accept discours indirect libre; accept erlebte Rede]
[10e] Pascal argues this literary device invites psychological interpretations, unlike FID. This device in which a character speaks their thoughts is common in theater, such as Macbeth’s “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.”
ANSWER: soliloquy [prompt on monologue]
[10h] The preface to this novel discusses the benefits and dangers of the first-person narrator and introduces the concept of ficelles. This novel’s American protagonist is aided by the ficelle character Maria Gostrey.
ANSWER: The Ambassadors (by Henry James)
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