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2. Tolkien's frame stories - Wikipedia

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   A frame story is a tale that encloses or frames the main story or set of stories. For example, in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, the main story is framed by a fictional correspondence between an explorer and his sister; [2] in One Thousand and One Nights, compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, the many stories are framed by a tale that Scheherazade keeps the king from executing her ...

3. Frame story - Wikipedia

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   The frame story leads readers from a first story into one or more other stories within it. The frame story may also be used to inform readers about aspects of the secondary narrative(s) that may otherwise be hard to understand. This should not be confused with narrative structure. [1] [2] [3] A notable example is The Decameron.

4. Category:Frame stories - Wikipedia

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   Category. : Frame stories. Articles relating to frame stories, a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into one or more ...

5. Order of The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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   The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, mostly in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer chiefly from 1387 to 1400. They are held together in a frame story of a pilgrimage on which each member of the group is to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back. Fewer than a quarter of the projected tales were completed ...

6. List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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   Tale of the Man Who Was Lavish of His House and His Provision to One Whom He Knew Not. Tale of the Melancholist and the Sharper. Tale of Khalbas and his Wife and the Learned Man. Tale of the Devotee Accused of Lewdness. Tale of the Hireling and the Girl. Tale of the Weaver Who Became a Leach by Order of His Wife.

7. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   Flashback (narrative) A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. [1] Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. [2] In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events ...

8. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2] Themes are often distinguished from premises.

9. 2-Year-Old Misses Dad Traveling for Work, So His Identical ...

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   Nelly McAloon's recent TikTok featuring her 2-year-old daughter Georgia excitedly running into the arms of her uncle Jason was a hit on the platform. Jason stepped in for his identical twin ...