Usually means: Quoting someone's exact spoken words.
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  1. direct speech: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. direct speech: Collins English Dictionary
  3. direct speech: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. direct speech: Wiktionary
  5. Direct speech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. direct speech: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. direct speech: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Direct Speech: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (direct speech)

noun:  (grammar, narratology) the writing of speech, using the exact words of the speaker, usually between quotation marks

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