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20 free Metafiction practice questions for the English Literature, each with the correct answer and a detailed explanation. Open any question below, or take the full set as an interactive quiz.

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  1. Q1. Which critic is credited with coining the term 'metafiction' in a 1970 essay to describe fiction that systematically deals with its own construction?
  2. Q2. The technique of 'breaking the fourth wall' in metafiction primarily serves to:
  3. Q3. In John Fowles' 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', the narrator famously interrupts the story to do what?
  4. Q4. Which metafictional device involves a story contained within another story, often reflecting or complicating the main narrative?
  5. Q5. Italo Calvino’s 'If on a winter's night a traveler' is considered a masterpiece of metafiction because its primary protagonist is:
  6. Q6. What is 'Historiographic Metafiction'?
  7. Q7. Which postmodern novel features a character who is a 'fictional' version of the author, Kurt Vonnegut, interacting with his own creations?
  8. Q8. In metafiction, the 'unreliable narrator' is often used to:
  9. Q9. Which 18th-century novel is often cited as a pre-postmodern, proto-metafictional work due to its endless digressions and authorial intrusions?
  10. Q10. The term 'Recursive Fiction' refers to a type of metafiction that:
  11. Q11. In Margaret Atwood’s 'The Blind Assassin', metafiction is achieved through which structural device?
  12. Q12. What is the primary effect of using 'Alternative Endings' in a metafictional work?
  13. Q13. Which Jorge Luis Borges story features a fictional author attempting to rewrite 'Don Quixote' word-for-word, creating a metafictional paradox?
  14. Q14. What does Patricia Waugh describe as the 'fictionality' of the real world in her study of metafiction?
  15. Q15. In 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov, the metafictional element is primarily located in:
  16. Q16. How does metafiction typically treat the 'suspension of disbelief'?
  17. Q17. In the play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', Tom Stoppard uses metafiction by:
  18. Q18. The use of footnotes in a work of fiction to explain fictional events or characters is a metafictional device that parodies:
  19. Q19. Which metafictional novel by John Barth is presented as a series of tapes recorded by a protagonist who may or may not be a computer program?
  20. Q20. Why is the 'Play within a Play' in 'Hamlet' considered an early example of metafictional technique?