Story within a story
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE IN WHICH ONE CHARACTER WITHIN A NARRATIVE NARRATES
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A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes called nested stories.