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KD
Since: May, 2009
31st Mar, 2021 08:57:39 AM
Framing Device, generally.
Closely related, if someone is telling the (true) story of what they've been doing that led up to this point, then it's How We Got Here.
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
31st Mar, 2021 09:12:53 AM
Someone reading a story may go under the subtrope Storybook Opening.
A piece of visual media where what goes on is a visualisation of someone reading a story. Most of the time, this is when the story starts and ends with someone narrating what is happening on the screen.