Saki - Plot - Flashback

Question 1

flashback

Answer 1

• a sudden break in the action of a story to show an event that happened in the past

Question 2

flashback used to

Answer 2

• give their readers important background information in the middle of current action
• jump start their story without establishing a lengthy setting
• create a faster-moving story
• add an element of suspense
• set up irony or twist in the story

Question 3

flashback is a tool used by authors to

Answer 3

• begin a story in the middle of action yet still give readers information they need

Question 4

which of these passages from Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” is an example of flashback

Answer 4

• sec 15. “Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out” is a flashback used by the niece

Question 5

which of these passages from Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” is an example of flashback

Answer 5

• sec. 14 “their bodies were never recovered” is flashback the niece uses in her fabricated story

Question 6

which of these passages from Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” is an example of flashback

Answer 6

• sec. 3. I know how it will be.’ his sister had said” is an example of flashback