Plot Devices

Flashback is

• when the author transports a reader to a time in the past.

• when the author transports a reader to a time and place in the future.

• the rate or speed with which the plot moves from one event to another.

• when the author transports a reader to a time in the future.

Flash forward is

• when the author transports the reader to another time and place in the past.

• when the writer weaves two or more dramatic plots that are usually linked by a common character and a similar theme.

• when the author transports the reader to a time in the future

• the writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Foreshadowing is

• when the author slows down the story for a slower pace.

• the writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• the writer transporting the reader to a time in the past.

• the writer transporting the reader to a time in the future.

Pacing is

• how fast or slow the reader reads in the story.

• the author transporting the reader to a time in the future.

• the movement of one event in the plot to another.

A story in which characters experience different events but are connected by a common theme is

• linear plot

• non-Linear plot

• parallel plot

What are the characteristics of a flash forward?(Select ALL that apply)

• the reader better understands the potential effects of a character's actions.

• the reader gains context from a time before the main plot of the text

• the reader is now reading about events beyond the main plot of the text.

• could happen through memories or dreams.

• the reader is transported to a time in the future.

The characteristics of a flashback are (Select ALL that apply)

• provides background information.

• the story is in chronological order and does not skew from that order.

• could happen through memories or dreams

• presents past events to understand current events.

Linear plot is when a story is in chronological order.

• True

• False

What is a NON-LINEAR plot?

• A story moving in chronological order.

• Two complex story lines happening at the same time.

• The writer moving the reader to a time in the future.

• Events being portrayed out of chronological order.

Plot is

• the speed in which a reader reads a story

• the writing process that authors use to write a story.

• the sequence of events in (a play, novel, movie, or similar work).