dialogue tag
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dialogue tag
noun dialogue tags
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dialogue, tag.
- A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.) Not every paragraph of dialogue needs to have a dialogue tag attached to it.
Similar: speech tag, attribution, annunciatory clause, quotative, quotation marker, tag, tag line
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Similar: speech tag, attribution, annunciatory clause, quotative, quotation marker, tag, tag line
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noun speech tag, attribution
| Français | incise |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Begleitsatz |
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@misc{dialogue_tag_2026,
title = {dialogue tag},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dialogue%20tag},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
