psychonarration
A narrative technique used by a narrator to represent a character's consciousness or inner thoughts, often characterized by smooth transitions between the narrator's own commentary and transcriptions of the character's internal mental states.
countable, uncountable
In examining the linguistic relationship between narrated monologue, psychonarration, and quoted monologue, Cohn identifies the distinctive grammatical features which differentiate narrated monologue from the other two modes: tense and person separate it from quoted monologue, the absence of mental verbs (the equivalent in the realm of thought, of inquit phrases in speech) such as "he thought" (and the resulting grammatical independence) separates it from psychonarration.
Where it comes from
From psycho- (“mind”) + narration, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “mind, soul”) and Latin narrātiō (“narrative, narration”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry psychonarration (CC BY-SA 4.0).