This term means “a story within a story”; it’s applicable to Frankenstein.

What did the master of Walton’s ship do with the farm he had bought with his money, “on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life”?

This man, one of Alphonse Frankenstein’s intimate friends, was a merchant who fell into poverty. Out of shame and pride, he retreated to Lucerne with his daughter, where Alphonse Frankenstein sought them out.

This person writes Victor a letter that begins “My dear Friend,” and asks him a “simple truth—Do you not love another?”

Extra Credit:  In Victor’s dream on the night that he creates the creature, he sees Elizabeth in the bloom of health on the streets of Ingolstadt.  What happens next?

This term refers to a fictional work told in a series of letters.

When this person first saw himself in a transparent pool, he says, he “started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror.”

This person speaks to the Creature for the first time in Chapter X, saying these words: “Devil . .. do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!”

This person, a pretty little girl of five years of age, is the favorite of William Frankenstein’s “little wives.”  

This Turkish merchant was cast into prison by the French government, and “it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.”