About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 287. Not illustrated. Chapters: Suspension of Disbelief, Epiphany, Screenplay, Macguffin, Plot Hole, Formula Fiction, Story Within a Story, Plot Device, Cliffhanger, Back-Story, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Screenwriting, Predestination Paradox, Mimesis, Hamartia, Twist Ending, Peripeteia, Ethos, Poetics, Catharsis, Flashback, Story Arc, Quest, Frame Story, Fabel, Deathtrap, Mythos, Lexis, Babies Switched at Birth, Plot Immunity, Reverse Chronology, Scene, Happy Ending, Plot Generator, Framing Device, Anagnorisis, Dramatic Structure, Climax, Red Herring, Three-Act Structure, Eavesdropping, Narrative Hook, Side Story, Subplot, Flashforward, Rising Action, Plot Twist, Dramatistic Pentad, Plot Point, Storyline, Vignette, Sexual Tension, A-Plot. Excerpt: A story within a story, also rendered story-within-a-story, is a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story. Mise en abyme is the French term for a similar literary device (also referring to the practice in heraldry of placing the image of a small shield on a larger shield). A story within a story can be used in novels, short stories, plays, television, films, poems, music, and even philosophy. A 1903 work is entitled A Story Within a Story Stories within stories can be of these types: Sometimes with type 2, someone completes the inner story in the real world and so changes it from fictional fiction to ordinary fiction: see Fictional fictional character#From fictional fiction to fiction. The inner stories are told either simply to entertain or more usually to act as an example to the other characters. In either case the story often has symbolic and psychological significance for the characters in the outer story. There is often some parallel between the two stories, and the fiction of the inner story is used to reveal the truth in the outer ...
