Flashback

How do I identify flashback in a

passage or story?
 FLASHBACK
AS
LITERARY ELEMENT
 Lesson 06
 Learning Objectives
 Identify some ways to find the person you
love and marry
 Identify the flashbacks used in the story
 Discuss the most dramatic event in the
story
 Concept:
Flashback and
Foreshadowing

Lesson Essential Questions:

How do I identify flashback in a passage

or story?
How do I identify foreshadowing in a
passage or story?
 What is Flashback?

A flashback is a literary device in which

an earlier episode, conversation, or event
is inserted into the chronological sequence
of a narrative.
 Is presented as a memory of the narrator
or of another character, a flashback may
be sparked by one or more cues, such as a
sound or odor associated with prior
experience or a visit to a related setting.
Example

When Sylvia Condez remembers her early

life with her family and her honeymoon with
David Gomez…..

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 Flashback
Flashback devices that are commonly
used are past narratives by characters,
depictions and references of dreams and
memories and a sub-device known as
authorial sovereignty wherein the author
directly chooses to refer to a past
occurrence by bringing it up in a
straightforward manner.
Flashback is used to create
a background to the present

 Example:
Back in the city when Maria was a
young girl….
 Activity
Go over the activities contained in your
Lesson 6
Example

 What movies, TV shows, or books

had you or read that used flashback
in them?
Enjoy Reading “May Day Eve”!
This lesson on flashback as a literary
device used in a short story ends your
lessons
in Short Story

See you in the next lesson!