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Flashback = A literary technique that reveals essential information about a character's past or a past event. Flashbacks interrupt the current action or chronology of the story to show a scene from the past
Examples: Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart (the entire short story is flashback)
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Snows of Kilamanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Flashback PDF File Worksheet with Flashcard
The Tell-Tale Heart PDF File Worksheet
FYI
flashback = noun
flashbacks = plural noun