WordNet
direct quotation
n. a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'") [syn: direct discourse] [ant: indirect discourse]
Usage examples of "direct quotation".
The last five words are clearly a direct quotation, they are so unlike Captain Lokkis' routine diction.
In all the accounts of the family history, told by all the aunts and uncles and upstairs maids, that was the only direct quotation of Caleb's that was ever handed down.