direct address

American  

noun

1. 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.

2. Computers. indirect address

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Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

What decisions did you make about using metatextual qualities and visual style and using direct address and other gimmicks to hold the viewer’s hand through the film?

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

Freestyle, direct address and a varied assortment of orange balloons are just a few of the expressive means deployed in “Misty,” which opened on Thursday at the Shed.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

That metadramatic direct address to readers defines the signature style of this weird hyper-self-aware mystery.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

From this point of view it is significant that the first and the last begin, like the Lord’s Prayer, with a direct address to the Father.

From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by Beibitz, J. H. (Joseph Hugh)