General examples:

1. Breaking the fourth wall: Breaking this boundary between writer and reader blurs the lines between real life and fiction. Metafiction often directly addresses the reader, openly questioning the narrator’s own  

2.  Presenting and discussing fictional works of an imaginary character
3. Openly questioning how narrative assumptions and conventions transform and filter reality, trying to ultimately prove that no singular truths or meanings exist  

1. The Character of Briony creates a play The trials of Arabella and in this she creates a story based on her life but changes it to non-fiction with the different characters. She and her cousins present the story within the novel and the characters become aware of their part to the story she has creates. 

2. Briony continually through the novel shifts between her reality and the fictional reality she creates in her mind. This is how the unreliable narrator is seen in the novel. Briony comments that the reader (by addressing the fact that the reader )will wonder what really has happened and this is answered by her saying “the lover survive and flourish” although not true and the truth is found at the end of the novel which is an example of how the narrator exposes themselves and addresses the audience. 

3. The use of meta fiction in the novel is seen in the multitude of voices and the different perspectives of events. An example is seen in the rape scene where the truth is led by the perspective of Briony which is a misinterpretation of the molestation.