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Read the extracts below from the Harry Potter book series. As you read through them, make notes of any devices that J.K. Rowling uses to show a flashback. It may be that she uses a dream, an object or something else to start a flashback in her writing. It is your job as you read the text to try and find these! You can magpie any language
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the Harry Potter series. Read the description of the Pensieve first to check your understanding of what it is, then move onto the planning sheet on the next page. It is up to you who your characters are, where they are and what happens to them within the flashback. The only link we are making to the Harry Potter
- Definition of A Flashback
- Common Examples of Flashback
- Significance of Flashback in Literature
- Examples of Flashback in Literature
- Test Your Knowledge of Flashback
In literature, a flashback is an occurrence in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current point of the story. The definition of flashback is identical to that of analepsis, which comes from the Greek for “the act of taking up.” There are two types of flashbacks—those that recount events that happened before the st...
Many of us have flashbacks quite frequently. We may have flashbacks when we think of someone whom we haven’t thought of in a while, and remember some memory that that person was a part of. Or we may look at an object and think of when we first got it, or why it’s significant. Lots of different things in our daily lives can trigger flashbacks and we...
Authors use flashbacks in their works for many different reasons. One key reason is to fill in elements of one or more characters’ backstories. Flashbacks can help the reader understand certain motivations that were otherwise unclear, or provide characterization in other ways. Flashbacks can also create suspense or add structure to a story. Some au...
Example #1
(Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad) This flashback example comes from near the beginning of Heart of Darkness as sailors are at rest on their boat on the Thames. Since they are not presently working, their fellow sailor Charles Marlow decides to tell them about his experience traveling upriver in the center of Africa to find an ivory trader named Kurtz. Therefore, the great bulk of Conrad’s novel occurs in flashback.
Example #2
(The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald) This excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gastby is the very opening line of the novel. Much of the first chapter occurs in flashback as the narrator Nick Carraway thinks about what has brought him to the East Coast and how out-of-place he feels there. His father’s quote stays with him, and it’s an interesting example of flashback that also carries some element of foreshadowing in that Nick will spend much of the book considering privilege and...
Example #3
(One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez) This is another example of flashback that occurs as the opening line of a novel. In fact, the first line of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature. In it, we meet one of the central characters of the book, Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and know some important factors about him right away. We know that later in the book he will face a firing squad, and we also kno...
1. Which of the following statements is the best flashback definition? A. A device in which time is moved forward from the present moment. B. An occurrence that a character thinks about which happened before the present moment in the narrative. C. A novel with no chronological order. [spoiler title=”Answer to Question #1″]Answer: B is the correct a...
A unit exploring flashbacks within stories, drawing inspiration from the Harry Potter books. Taught to our Year Sixes as a three week unit. Lessons include: Cold Tas
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Aug 23, 2021 · Definition and Examples of Flashbacks. When writing a work of fiction, an author can take the reader out of the present story and jump into an earlier time period in a character’s life. This narrative tool is called a flashback. Also used in films and television shows, flashbacks give a story more depth by revealing details that help readers ...
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series employs a technique that allows characters to experience flashbacks as if they were happening in the present. Authors and Flashbacks. Authors may use flashbacks to add complexity to their stories, create suspense, or provide background information.
