Flashback
How do I identify flashback in a
passage or story?
LITERARY
ELEMENTS
Key Learning: Writers use the elements of fictionplot, conflict, flashback, foreshadowing, setting, and
theme- to create a story.
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Unit Essential Question: How does an author use the elements of
fiction to create a story?
Concept:
Concept:
Plot
Lesson Essential
•How do I distinguish among
the 5 basic elements of plot
and place them on a plot
diagram?
How do I identify the four
main types of conflict in a
literary plot and in non-print
media?
What aspects of the story
should be considered when
determining the setting of a
story?
What clues help a reader
identifiy the setting of a
story?
Vocabulary:
Exposition ,Rising
Action, Climax, Falling
Action,
Resolution/Denouement,
Complication, Conflict,
Setting
Flashback and
Foreshadowing
Concept:
Theme
Lesson Essential
Questions:
Lesson Essential
Questions:
How do I identify
flashback in a passage or
story?
How do I identify
foreshadowing in a
passage or story?
How do I recognize
implied and stated
theme?
Vocabulary:
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Vocabulary:
Implied Theme
Stated Theme
Flashback Activator

Listen as Miss Rumphius is read to you
 Pay attention
Do you know what special literary
device is being used?
Teaching
A
What is Flashback?
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.
Example
Danny remembered more about his mother's
death than he'd ever told anyone. The day
she died, she had called each of her sons to
her bedside individually.
"Pour me a cup of fresh water, please," she
said, her voice thick with the Polish accent
that decorated her words when she was tired
or sick.
Danny filled the cup, careful not to splash it
on the bedside table.
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Example
"Now, hand me my lipstick."
But he didn't leave. He stood in the
doorway and had watched as she had
swallowed the pills, three at a time, until
they were gone.
Even now, Danny felt responsible for her
death. He looked at his father and
swallowed hard .
Teaching
Example
 What
movies, TV shows, or books
that you have watched or read have
had flashback in them?
Flashback Choice Boxes
1Mastery
2Interpersonal
On your own sheet of notebook paper,
define flashback. Then read the short
story, “Ping! Ping!” (see teacher for a
copy). Place the events of the story on
a timeline to represent a flashback.
On your own sheet of notebook paper,
write a journal entry (at least three
paragraphs long—make sure you use
proper grammar, punctuation, and
spelling) explaining why you are more
confident or afraid today because of
something that happened in the past.
How do I identify flashback in a passage or
story?
3Understanding
4Self-Expression
On your own sheet of notebook paper,
write your own story that contains
flashback. Your story doesn’t have to
be long, but it needs to makes sense.
Make sure your story contains proper
grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Draw a picture representing the
flashback from your story.
First, ask your teacher for computer
paper. Next, draw a “Family Circus”
cartoon that contains a bubble
illustrating flashback. Write an
explanation of the present events and
the flashback.
Family Circus
Cartoons
Flashback Summarizer
 Ticket-Out-The-Door
 Explain
the literary device used in Miss
Rumphius.