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direct address
noun
- Grammar. the use of a term or name for the person spoken to, as in securing the attention of that person; use of a vocative form.
- Computers. indirect address
Example Sentences
“Primary Trust” moves between Kenneth’s direct address narration and loose-limbed dramatization.
In a direct address to the Iranian people, he hinted that regime change was coming in Tehran.
The playwright occasionally preempts the audience’s discovery with direct address explanation.
In one of his direct address soliloquies after the show resumed, Spears prefaced Juicy’s words by asking that any critics in the house take note of the gusto with which the actors continued their performances after the unexpected interruption.
At various points, Zarin shifts from third to first person, then integrates a second person voice, the book’s private reader, which becomes the object of a heightened strategy of direct address.
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