Perhaps most impressively he has constructed a narrative frame and a plot twist of his own that darkens even Twain's dark humor.

Someone composed and added a prologue to fit Hoccleve's poem into Chaucer's narrative frame.

The narrative frame is based from the Book of Jubilees.

That this is meant to resonate through history is communicated through a cheeky, effective narrative frame.

The main structure of the work is the narrative frame (the conversation between the king Decelem and the alguacil-philosopher Burduben).

The editing is so sloppy that the film is well along before one realizes that a single day's events are the narrative frame.

The film has the episodic structure and small scale of cinema verite, and the narrative frame of a home movie.

Each short story accelerates the narrative frame and is analyzed within the scientific eucalypt theme.

The narrative frame is obviously fictional.

The narrative frame of this poem is a dinner party where many potential dysfunctions in the ideal of the patron-client relationship are put on display.