noun
- literary works that self-consciously address the devices of fiction, often breaking the fourth wall or commenting on their own fictional nature
Usage: literary term; plural form
Examples
- The professor assigned several metafictions for the postmodern literature course.
- These metafictions constantly remind readers that they are reading a constructed story.
- Many contemporary metafictions blur the line between author and narrator.
- The anthology collected various metafictions from the late twentieth century.
- Students struggled to understand how metafictions challenge conventional storytelling.
- The writer’s metafictions often feature characters who know they’re in a book.