metafiction.

Fiction that draws attention to its own status or construction as fiction.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• self-conscious metafiction
• metafictional narration

On the page

The novel’s metafiction interrupted the scene it was constructing.

Her metafiction made the reader question who had arranged the accounts.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.