LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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To show important character details that happened before the story in the book began.
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To keep the reader interested in the story by giving out hints about what will eventually happen to the characters.
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To keep the reader from understanding what is going on in certain parts of the story.
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To surprise the reader with the events that led up to or come as a result of the characters’ actions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A writer uses this literary device to help readers better understand present-day elements in the story or learn more about a character. Whether it’s a vivid memory or a dream sequence, a flashback scene (sometimes called an analepsis) is a window to an earlier occurrence that provides critical information to the story.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most common purpose is to generate or increase narrative suspense or tension: this is why foreshadowing is often found at the end of chapters or sections, and why it’s a standard feature in genres that really rely on suspense, like the Gothic novel and the horror movie.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Both flashback and foreshadowing are narrative devices that present story events out of temporal order. Flashback describes some past events related to the present; foreshadowing gives allusion (possibly implicit) to some future events.