Literary device

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

• Suspense

Foreshadowing and flashback are both examples of literary elements. 

• True
• False
• Sometimes

What is flashback?

• A activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation

• The author is leaving hints or clues to suggests events that will occur later in a work of literature.

• A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

• I don't know

A dramatic unresolved ending

• character

• cliffhanger

• climax

• conflict

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

• Suspense

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

• Suspense

• Cliffhanger

An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happen at an earlier time. 

• Flashback 
• Setting 
• Irony 
• Allusion 

Narrator uses I or me

when something unexpected (or even something implausible) happens during a story and solves the conflict

The purpose of suspense is to keep the reader interested in the story.

• True

• False