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frame story
noun
- a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- a narrative providing the framework for connecting a series of otherwise unrelated stories.
- a literary device that uses such a narrative structure.
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The author also deftly deploys the frame story, putting the present narrative in conversation with the violent events of Sitwell’s childhood in the American South.
From Washington Post
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