| Display title | Metafictional Device |
| Default sort key | Metafictional Device |
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| Page ID | 151809 |
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| Date of page creation | 21:27, 1 November 2013 |
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Article description: (description)
This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Normally, it would just be Paratext, or a basic building block of the fiction. But somehow, something used to construct the work—the font of the text, or the formatting, a cute yellow thought/narration box or a dialogue balloon, quirks of spelling, the edge of the filmstrip—is incorporated into the text, where the characters can interact with it. When this happens, that item becomes a Metafictional Device.
Sometimes this involves Breaking the Fourth Wall; other times, it doesn't occur to anyone to wonder why that pretty thought balloon is visible, and it becomes more of a Strange Loop or Painting the Fourth Wall. |