LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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a scene in which a character mentions something that happened earlier.
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an interruption of a story’s chronology to describe an earlier event.
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a technique an author uses to change the setting to a different tone.
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an nterruption of the plot to return to character development.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What Is a Flashback in Literature? In fiction, a flashback is a scene that takes place before a story begins. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 a transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the normal chronological order of events. A flashback in a movie might show what happened when a character was younger. Flashbacks are often used for comedic effect, to prove or contradict something in the present.
Detailed explanation-4: -Also known as an “Inception Flashback", a flashback within a flashback occurs when a character recounts an event in which he/she also flashbacks into an even earlier event within the flashback. Yep, it’s confusing.
Detailed explanation-5: -There are essentially two main types of flashback: A full flashback scene or a brief in-scene flashback.