Flashback and Foreshadow ing How do I identify
Flashback and Foreshadow ing How do I identify flashback and foreshadowing in a passage or story? How do flashback/foreshadowing help me become a better reader? SOL 8. 5 F 1 and F 3
Flashback and Foreshadowing Lesson Essential Questions: · How do I identify flashback in a passage or story? · How do I identify foreshadowing in a passage or story?
What is Flashback? A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened prior to the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial back-story.
What does flashback look like on the SOL? Which paragraph/sentence contains a flashback— The flashback interrupts which part of the story— The author included a flashback to— What did the reader learn in the flashback?
Let’s Practice Flashback! 1) When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral; the men through a sort of respectful attention for a fallen monument, the women who 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 the last 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 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 hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor…. remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from death of her father into perpetuity. Which sentence contains the flashback? Sentence 1 Sentence 2 Sentence 3 Sentence 4
What is Foreshadowing- is a clue/ hint about an event that will happen later in the plot
What does foreshadowing look like on the SOL? The author uses foreshadowing in the story to— In which line/paragraph is there an example of foreshadowing — The foreshadowing allows the reader to predict— The foreshadowing shows the tone of____ in the story--
Let’s Practice Foreshadowing A sudden, blustery wind starts making its way through the woods. This could possibly foreshadow that: (1) the biggest storm of the year will ravage the town. (2) a tree will topple over, smashing into a nearby house. A police car with sirens blaring zooms down the highway. This could possibly foreshadow that: (1) a speeder will cause a major traffic accident before being pulled over. (2) the police will finally capture an escaped convict.
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