A character who contrasts another

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22Story within a storyRECALL
Frame narrative
An outer narrative contains another
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23Narrator · explain the literary termRECALL
The voice or entity telling a story.
The narrator may be a character, an observer, or a voice outside the action.
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24First-person narrator · explain the literary termRECALL
A narrator who speaks as ‘I’ or ‘we.’
First person can feel intimate but may also limit what the reader knows.
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