Definition of "diegesis"
diegesis
noun
plural diegeses
(narratology) A narration or recitation.
Quotations
The standard distinction between mimesis and diegesis is usually referred to as that between showing and telling, between iconic and indexical signs on the one hand and symbolic signs on the other, between drama and recitation.
1991, Christopher Collins, The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination, page 4