ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -When writing a work of fiction, an author can take the reader out of the present story and jump into an earlier time period in a character’s life. This narrative tool is called a flashback.

Detailed explanation-2: -flashback, in motion pictures and literature, narrative technique of interrupting the chronological sequence of events to interject events of earlier occurrence. The earlier events often take the form of reminiscence. The flashback technique is as old as Western literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -A flashback, or involuntary recurrent memory, is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be frightful, happy, sad, exciting, or any number of other emotions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Flashback is a type of literary device used to create interest in the flow of the narrative, provide background information or sympathy for a character (including secrets or inner conflicts), or reveal background information necessary to drive the plot.

Detailed explanation-5: -In fictions of memory, the process of remembering is evoked by what literary critics have called “mimesis of memory” (Neumann): This term refers to the ensemble of narrative forms and aesthetic techniques through which literary texts stage and reflect the workings of memory.