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Frame story

A frame story (also known as a frame tale, framing device, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, nested narrative, or intercalation) is the literary technique and narrative structure in which an opening narrative introduces either a more emphasized second narrative or a set of shorter tales. The frame story leads readers from a first story into one or…

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A set of stories

Single story

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Frame story

Nodes107
Edges106
Triples86
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018692
Components1

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related to Origins · 30
Frame story → Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's, Egypt, Europe, Hitopadesha, Homer's Odyssey, Indian, Juan Ruiz's Libro, King Alcinous, Mahabharata, Masters, Odysseus, One Nights, One Thousand, Other, Panchatantra, Papyrus Westcar, Ramayana, Sanskrit
related to Dream vision · 25
Frame story → Alice's Adventures, Christian, Duchess, Europe, Fame, Foules, Geoffrey Chaucer, God, Good Women, In, John Bunyan, Later, Lewis Carroll's Alice, Looking-Glass, Middle-earth, On Fairy-Stories, Parlement, Pilgrim's Progress, The Book, The House
related to A set of stories · 11
Frame story → Landsman, Many, One Nights, One Thousand, Scheherazade, Seaman, Shahrazad's, Sindbad, Sometimes, Sultan Shahriyar, Tale
related to Casting doubt on the narrator · 9
Frame story → Amadeus, Antonio Salieri, By, Mozart, Mr, Mulliner, Salieri, The, Wodehouse's
related to False documents · 7
Frame story → Dr Jekyll, Examples, Historical Notes, Mr Hyde, Mr Utterson, Strange Case, The Handmaid's Tale
is a · 2
Frame story → literary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives, use of one or more stories-within-a-story across the majority of its content
related to Single story · 2
Frame story → This, When

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Frame storyis ause of one or more stories-within-a-story across the majority of its content0.90text
Frame storyis aliterary device that acts as a convenient conceit to organize a set of smaller narratives0.90text
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesSometimes0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesOne Thousand0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesOne Nights0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesScheherazade0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesSultan Shahriyar0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesMany0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesShahrazad's0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesTale0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesSindbad0.60section
Frame storyrelated to A set of storiesSeaman0.60section

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