Sometimes I’ll be trucking along, editing someone else’s short story or whatever, and I want to give them advice or whatever on the “said” bit. You know, like in “I’m ignorant,” he said. That last bit, where the sentence identifies the speaker. But I don’t know what the damn thing is called.
I’ve tried searching, but the internet has failed me. There has to be a term for that part of the sentence, but it eludes me. Oh, the humanity!
Just make one up.
You: I liked the overall flow of the story, but you need to be a little more expressive with your elocutionary identifiers.
Him: What the heck is an elocutionary identifier?
You: It’s the “he said” after someone speaks.
Him: Wow, dude, you’re so smart…
And then just bask in the glory…
TR
Posted 1:45 PM on Apr. 26, 2007 ↑
Ooh, elocutionary identifier is delightfully impossible to understand. I might have to drop that on someone just to see the glazed look steal over their eyes.
Posted 1:49 PM on Apr. 26, 2007 ↑