<anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="id_docs-internal-guid-68b34743-f5cf-f881-8f33-e5d9f49c797b" />There is an assumption in literary studies that a huge amount of direct speech is an indicator of low brow fiction. Figure 4 shows the ratio of direct speech between Corpus <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">LB</hi> and <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">HB</hi>. While the mean usage of direct speech is nearly equal in both groups, the high brow literature is far more variable.