LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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A narrative that introduces readers to the main characters of a story
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A narrative that summarizes the plot of the novel
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A story within a story
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A story that reminds the reader that the story is fictional
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Detailed explanation-1: -A frame narrative or a frame story is a ‘story within a story, ’ a technique storytellers use in which the narrator in one setting tells a story set in another time and place. The technique is also called a sandwich narrative or a frame tale.
Detailed explanation-2: -As its name suggests, a frame story is a narrative that frames or surrounds another story or set of stories. It usually appears at the beginning and end of that larger story and provides important context and key information for how to read it.
Detailed explanation-3: -A shorter story contained inside a longer story or novel is called a story-within-a-story, an embedded story, or a nested story. The outside story which introduces or surrounds the shorter story is called a frame story.
Detailed explanation-4: -A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes called nested stories.
Detailed explanation-5: -Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë One Thousand and One Nights, by various authors. The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.