Flashback in Literature

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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A hint of something happening later on...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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 “Remember, Cinderella,” warned her fairy godmother, “you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember.”
“Of course, I’ll remember,” said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music.

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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Often times provides background information 

• Foreshadowing
• Flashback

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 Now that she was a princess, Cinderella often thought back to the events that brought her to the castle. In particular, she remembered the day her father first brought the woman who would become her stepmother to their home.
It was a dreary November day when Cinderella met the cold, haughty woman. “Darling,” said Father, speaking to Cinderella, “this is your new mother. I want you to love her dearly and do everything she says.”

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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Feeling of tension or anxiety

• Foreshadowing
• Flashback

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Interrupts the chronological order of the story

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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Suspense is created

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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In the movie, Jaws, when a young man is laying on a float in the ocean, and the camera angle is shown underwater getting closer to his legs with intense music playing in the background, this would be an example of what?

• Foreshadowing
• Flashback

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Foreshadowing and flashback are both examples of literary elements. 

• True
• False
• Sometimes

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