VOCABULARY
Many of these Vocabulary words can be seen applied to novels underneath the Literary Gallery tab.
- Bookend - The use of a framing device that sets the stage for the story itself. Can be done by having an aged character recount the story, usually done in voice over narration. Or by mixing up the order of events in which the story is being told, such as telling the beginning at the end and the end at the beginning.
- Encapsulated - The second or additional story being told.
- Epigraphic Frame - The frame is separated from the core of the story. It usually appears as chapter or section epigraphs or as footnotes throughout the text.
- Epistolary Frame - Story is either communicated through or interspersed with fictional media. Traditionally with letters and journal entries from the perspective of one or more fictional characters.
- Explication - The frame story makes it possible to answer a fundamental question implied but not addressed by the encapsulated story.
- Found Narrative - The story opens with an explanation, justification, and introduction for the narrative.
- Frame Narrative - An introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
- Frame Story - Another name for Frame Narrative - see above.
- Frame Tale - Another name for Frame Narrative - See above.
- Interrogative Frame - Story is told in flashbacks by one of its principle characters, usually incited by an interrogation, whether friendly or hostile in nature.
- Literary Device - A standardized method an author uses to convey his or her message.
- Meta-Fictional exploration - Purposefully blurs the boundaries between the reality of the frame story and that of the encapsulated story, the framing device focuses the reader's attention on the structures and purposes of the entire work and on its separation as a work of fiction.
- Nested Stories - One or more characters within a frame story acts as a storyteller, and through telling the other character one or more stories, the narrative is simultaneously communicated to the fictional listener and the reader.
- Oral Tradition - Process in which stories are composed and performed for an audience.
- Refutation, Reinforcement, or Redirection - The frame story unifies - at either an emotional or thematic level - the encapsulated so tires. It either refutes, reinforces, or redirects conclusions or impressions that the reader may have taken from the encapsulated stories.
- Stagnation - to cease developing, or to stay the same.
- Story Within a Story - The use of having one tale tell another. See Frame Narrative
- The Story as an Object - One or more characters within the encapsulated story reads a book, watches a movie, etc. and either the reality of the frame intrudes upon the fictional world of the story, or the fictional world of the story intrudes into the reality of the frame.
- World - Building - By placing the encapsulated story within a broader context independent of that story, the verisimilitude, the appearance of being real or true, of the fictional world is increased, that world gains in depth and becomes more immersive.