Saki - Plot - Flashback Flashcards

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flashback

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

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  • 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
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flashback is a tool used by authors to

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  • begin a story in the middle of action yet still give readers information they need
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which of these passages from Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” is an example of flashback

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  • sec 15. “Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out” is a flashback used by the niece
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which of these passages from Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” is an example of flashback

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  • sec. 14 “their bodies were never recovered” is flashback the niece uses in her fabricated story
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which of these passages from Saki’s story, “The Open Window,” is an example of flashback

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