: Re: Using a pronoun outside of quotations to refer to a person mentioned in quotations who hasn't been introduced yet Would the line: "Peter!" cried his father. make grammatical sense? It seems
Does the reader already know the father?
I'm not certain that matters, but i assume we do. In either case - Yes. You are introducing a character through another character.
This type of character introduction is similar to style #2 at the link.
The link provides an example of this type of introduction from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
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