"metadiegetic" meaning in English

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          "text": "A particularly striking example appears in Hawthorne's next romance, The House of the Seven Gables, in which Chapter 13 consists entirely of a metadiegetic narrative entitled \"Alice Pyncheon,\" composed and read by the diegetic character Holgrave.",
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          "text": "The diegetic and metadiegetic aspects of the Joker's use of music also persist. Prince's \"Trust\" features diegetically in the festival parade as the Joker rides on his birthday-cake float, while the Straussian waltz reappears metadiegetically in the in the cue \"Waltz,\" for the battle between Batman and the Joker's henchman as the Joker waltzes with a semiconscious Vicki in the background. This, and his comment, \"shall we dance?\" to Batman just before the cue starts again positions this as music that the Joker has control cover: it is more than simply heard in his head.",
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          "text": "Sound effects are often enlisted to externalize a characters' inner thoughts, nightmares, hallucinations, dreams, or wishes. We might hear, for example, the laughter of a child as a woman picks up a doll from childhood. This gives the scene a surreal feeling. This effect is often called meta-diegetic.",
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        "(narratology) Pertaining to a secondary narrative embedded within the primary narrative (a story within a story)."
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          "word": "métadiégétique"
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