Question

she walked up to him and said, "what is your name"?

Answer 1

The given sentence is in direct speech as it is in quotation marks and represents the exact words said by the speaker.

The other way to write the same sentence is in indirect or reported speech to report what she said and not say the exact words used by her. When written this way, the sentence format will be as follows:

She walked up to him and asked him what his name was.