ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Flashbacks interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character’s life. A writer uses this literary device to help readers better understand present-day elements in the story or learn more about a character.

Detailed explanation-2: -A sequence of events. A flashback interrupts that chronological sequence, the front line action or “present” line of the story, to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Flashback is when you flash back to the past during the course of a story. See? In all seriousness though, Flashbacks are pretty much exactly what they seem to be-a scene (or sequence of scenes) that deviates from the main story to show something that happened before the events of the primary storyline.

Detailed explanation-4: -A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory.