Flashblack and Foreshadowing

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The plot is interrupted to recreate an event of an earlier time

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• explains how past affects the present​

• gives more info about characters​

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Flashback

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Multiple Choice

Carlos laughed when he thought about how scared he was in the haunted house at the carnival last year. He had no way of knowing he was about to face a fright that wasn’t meant to be fun.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

Cassie poised at the end of the diving board, ready to plunge into the water. Suddenly, she was five years old again, standing on the edge of a dock and falling backward, unable to control her fall, and unable to swim.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

As the old man watched the boys playing baseball in the vacant lot, he thought back to his own boyhood and the friends he’d had in his home town. They’d cleared debris and stray bushes from a lot and built their own baseball diamond, complete with an elevated pitcher’s mound. The old man remembered the feeling of standing on that mound, exchanging signals with the catcher, and winding up to throw a pitch.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

Shelly felt relieved. She had finally finished her homework, completed her chores, and written a long-overdue thank you note to her grandmother. Her relief wouldn’t last for long, though. Her mother knocked on the bedroom door and walked in.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

When the alarm clock sounded, Amy leaned over to turn it off and got up to start her day. She had no idea it would be one of the most memorable days of her life.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Suspense

Multiple Choice

Joyce watched the clock. The minute hand seemed frozen over the ten. The slow tick tock seemed to promise that time was moving forward, but Joyce had no sense of it. All she knew was that she had to wait until 8:00.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

As their car rumbled down the dirt road toward the lake cabin, Kim was transported back to last summer. She remember the hard work it took to get the cabin in shape for another summer at the lake. “We have to work before we can play,” her mother had reminded her.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

Finally the day had arrived. Mary was turning 13. She had helped her mother plan the most exciting party ever, complete with entertainment, dancing, and exciting gifts for all of her guests. While her thirteenth birthday would be one Mary would never forget, it wasn’t for the reasons she thought that morning.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Multiple Choice

Visiting this restaurant always reminded Lorna of her grandparents. She remembered the first time she’d come here with them. Her grandfather had ordered a hamburger, and her grandmother, a vegetarian, had fretted over whether or not there was meat in her chili. Lorna had been embarrassed, staring at the menu while Grandma and Grandpa asked question after question about the menu.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback