Mise en abyme: A story within a story that mirrors the larger narrative, creating a recursive or self-referential effect.
How to apply it: Analyze how the embedded narrative comments on or illuminates the outer narrative's themes or conditions.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Longer Fiction or Drama II
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