diegetic

“Each pop song begins as a tinny diegetic insert (on a radio or gramophone) before flowering into a booming soundtrack accompaniment.” Adrian Martin; December Boys; Sight and Sound (London, UK); Nov 2007. “Much of the book is pure chronicle, told in a diegetic prose.” Marcel Theroux; No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa; The Guardian (London, UK); Jul 26, 2023. “That’s why I loved Moultrie’s dance staging for ‘Fat Ham’, in which characters discovered their truth through what you might call diegetic movement.

They were actually dancing in the story, while lip-syncing to karaoke at a party.” Jesse Green, et al; Choreographers Shape New Shows; The New York Times; May 14, 2023.