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Story within a story

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A frame narrative contains another story within an outer narrative. Source: Frame narrative ↗

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  1. 23Narrator · explain the literary termRECALL
    The voice or entity telling a story.

    The narrator may be a character, an observer, or a voice outside the action.

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  2. 24First-person narrator · explain the literary termRECALL
    A narrator who speaks as ‘I’ or ‘we.’

    First person can feel intimate but may also limit what the reader knows.

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  3. 25Unreliable narrator · explain the literary termRECALL
    A narrator whose account cannot be accepted as fully trustworthy.

    The gap between what the narrator says and what the reader notices can create tension or irony.

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