: I post this answer about once per month: Jane Austen invented a style where the thoughts of any character are suddenly stated as fact through the 3rd-person narrator. Free Indirect Speech

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I post this answer about once per month:

Jane Austen invented a style where the thoughts of any character are suddenly stated as fact through the 3rd-person narrator.

Free Indirect Speech

What distinguishes free indirect speech from normal indirect speech is
the lack of an introductory expression such as "He said" or "he
thought".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_indirect_speech

Just write the dialog, without quotation marks and without "she chirped".

It looks like #3 but without the italics.

I agree #3 is the strongest of the examples, but the italics do seem like telepathy or a translation from bird-language.

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