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What is a frame story?

What is a frame story? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A literary technique whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
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The prose commentary provides the frame story, which is not treated by the poems themselves.
Frankenstein is written in the form of a frame story that starts with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister.
Karnad also invents a frame story to exaggerate the literary themes and meanings in the central episode, and it is this frame that gives the play its name.
In the frame story Sindbad is marooned or shipwrecked after he sets sail from Basra with merchandise.
This frame story and the six episodes created by the playwrights were presented at a reading in Madrid in July.
In the frame story a young doctor named Natalia Stefanovic has journeyed, with a friend, to a small town across the border to deliver medicine to an orphanage.

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