A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece...

steel frame that limits the construction's extent. Frame and FRAME may also refer to: Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction...

J. R. R. Tolkien used frame stories throughout his Middle-earth writings, especially his legendarium, to make the works resemble a genuine mythology written...

device of stories within a story dates back to a device known as a "frame story", where a supplemental story is used to help tell the main story. Typically...

to increase the reader's feeling that the story in his 1954–55 book The Lord of the Rings was real, by framing the main text with an elaborate editorial...

previous births of Lord Gautama Buddha. The Frame story, also known as the frame narrative or story within a story, is a narrative technique that probably...

details of the frame story appear in the Prologue, its "Note on Shire Records", and in the Appendices, notably Appendix F. In this frame story, the Red Book...

tales, however, were originally folk stories from the Abbasid and Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are probably drawn from the Pahlavi...

or stylistic devices Frame story Play within a play Rashomon effect, different narrators providing different accounts or stories of the same narrative...

story arcs created for the TV series. Character arc Dramatic structure Frame story Limited series Miniseries Saga Serial Sjuzhet Storytelling Storyteller...

a frame story is the portion outside the flashback. For example, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein uses the adventures of a sea captain as a frame story for...

species, whereas humans are reduced to a savage animal-like state. In a frame story, a rich couple sailing alone in space, Jinn and Phyllis, rescue and translate...

Shahryar's younger brother, Shah Zaman ruled over Samarkand. In the frame-story, Shahryar is betrayed by his wife, which makes him believe that all women...

Jimenez. The novel contains a frame story about a grandchild listening to stories of the Old Country; it also tells the story of two men who journey across...

published in Vinyar Tengwar (39) in 1998. Within its fictional context, a frame story, the text is presented as a summary by an unnamed editor of the last...

and "Whispers". "The Library" segment is the frame story, which begins and ends the movie. In the frame story of the film, H. P. Lovecraft learns of a monastery...

experiences with the military during World War I. The film makes use of a frame story, with a prologue and epilogue combined with a twist ending. Janowitz...

Fatal Frame, titled Zero in Japan and Project Zero in Europe and Australia, is a Japanese survival horror video game series that was created, published...

befriended the Elves and acted as the source of later mythology. Thus, in the frame story, Ælfwine is the stated author of the various translations in Old English...

The story is set in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Tim Roth plays Ted, the bellhop and main character in the frame story...

In its original sense, a shaggy-dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents...

Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a...

wanted. Additional photography took place in September 1955, filming a frame story on which the studio had insisted (see Original intended ending). The...

than most novelettes and short stories. The English word novella derives from the Italian novella meaning a short story related to true (or apparently...

collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales...

primarily of excerpts from previous episodes. Most clip shows include a frame story in which cast members recall events from past installments of the show...

several stories within the original collection but they are presented out of order and without the Scheherazade, Dunyazad and King Shahriyar frame story. The...

that he encourages Jason to read for advice. The rest of the film is a frame story covering the life of Red Stevens and his pursuit of his wealth. Drew...

script was used in a 1955 episode of X Minus One, with the addition of a frame story in which it was explained that George and Lydia were not really slain...

Hurston’s frame story persona does not record the folktales themselves, but rather context in which Hurston supposedly heard the stories. She describes...