What is 'Metafiction'?
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Correct answer: Fiction that self-consciously reflects on the devices and conventions of fiction itself
Metafiction breaks the 'fourth wall' of literature, reminding the reader that they are reading a constructed story. It often involves characters who know they are in a book or narrators who discuss the writing process.
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