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Literary Special Effects
(aka Literary Techniques)

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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