What is flashback?

What is foreshadowing?

"Mary heard the bells ring in the distance. She thought about the time not too long ago when that sound would take her break into a sprint. Now it was that time again. She was running so that she would not be late for school. Oh, how she disliked the sound of bells!"

Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?

"Mary heard the bells ring in the distance. She thought about the time not too long ago when that sound would take her break into a sprint. Now it was that time again. She was running so that she would not be late for school. Oh, how she disliked the sound of bells!"

What word or phrase help you to know if this is flashback or foreshadowing?

"A long-forgotten memory came back to Peter as he drove through his old neighborhood. Mr. Smith’s dog was chasing him down the street. He fell, and pain shot through his arm."

Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?

"A long-forgotten memory came back to Peter as he drove through his old neighborhood. Mr. Smith’s dog was chasing him down the street. He fell, and pain shot through his arm."

What word or phrase help you to know if this is flashback or foreshadowing?

"Mike felt as confident as ever when he started his boat engine that day. He noticed a few clouds gathering overhead, but did not worry about them."

Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?

"Mike felt as confident as ever when he started his boat engine that day. He noticed a few clouds gathering overhead, but did not worry about them."

What word or phrase help you to know if this is flashback or foreshadowing?

"It's going to be one of those days," Marek thought to himself as he looked up at the board labeled DEPARTURES. His flight was delayed. He thought back to how the day had begun. When he woke up, the sun had been shining brightly and robins that had built a nest outside his window were chirping loudly. He'd jumped out of bed, anxious to start the first day of his vacation. But he'd tripped over the clothes he'd carelessly dropped on the floor the night before and banged his knee on the closet door."

The author uses flashback to have Marek...

“You’ve got this!” Sara cheered, standing on the sidewalk. She watched as her dad followed closely behind her little brother’s bike. As he let go, she couldn’t help but think of when she first learned to ride a bike. She could still feel her heart racing and remember how scared she was, waiting for her dad to let go. She knew exactly how her brother was feeling."

Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?

"We came barreling around the curve and I could hear the snow crunch under the tires. I glanced at the speedometer. “Will you please slow down?” I asked Steven. “The weather is getting worse and I’m worried we will hit some ice.” The snow was falling hard now and I could barely see the road!"

Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?

“Remember, Cinderella,” warned her fairy godmother, “you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember.”

“Of course, I’ll remember,” said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music."

Is this an example of foreshadowing or flashback?

[1] When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years. [2] It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies . . . [3] But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood . . . . [4] Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care: a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor . . . remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father into perpetuity.

Where is the flashback?

[1] It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. [2] Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. [3] The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. [4] At one end of it a colored poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall.

Which sentence foreshadows the main conflict?

Read the passage from Sweet Potato Pie.

"Because I see Charley so seldom, my thoughts hover over him like hummingbirds. The cheerful, impersonal tidiness of this room is a world away from Charley’s walk-up flat in Harlem and a hundred worlds from the bare, noisy shanty where he and the rest of us spent what there was of childhood."

At what point does the flashback begin?

How did the flashback in Sweet Potato Pie help you to understand the narrator’s feelings about Charley?

Read the passage from A Sound of Thunder.

“Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?”

“We guarantee nothing,” said the official, “except the dinosaurs.”

What clue can you find to the dangers of the trip?

Read the passage from A Sound of Thunder.

"This is Mr. Travis, your Safari Guide in the Past. He'll tell you what and where to shoot. If he says no shooting, no shooting. If you disobey instructions, there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return."

What did the warning to Eckels foreshadow?

Read the passage from A Sound of Thunder.

"If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President.”

“Yes,” said the man behind the desk. “If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course, it’s not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith’s President now."

What did the conversation about the election foreshadow?