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Noun Concept
Categories: Plot (narrative), Narrative techniques, Articles with short description
EN
flashback  Analepses  analepsis  external analepsis  Flash back
EN
A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story WordNet 3.0
English:
narrative technique
Continuity
literary technique
narrative
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EN
A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Wikipedia
Interjected scene that takes a narrative back in time Wikidata
A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative. Wiktionary
IS A
transition
cinematic technique
ANTONYM
flash-forward
CATEGORY DOMAIN
literature
DERIVATION
cut back
DIFFERENT FROM
flashback
OPPOSITE OF
flash-forward
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
flashback
Wikipedia
EN
flashback (narrative)
Wikidata
EN
flashback
Wiktionary
EN
flashback
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Analepses, analepsis, Flash back, Flash backs, Flashback (continuity), Flashback in film, Racconto
Wikidata Alias
EN
analepsis, external analepsis, internal analepsis

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