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Time, chronology & narrative form · Working

Flashback

Also called: retrospective scene

ELI5

A scene or passage that moves the story to an earlier time.

Used in conversation

“The pitch names the flashback, but the story still needs to prove it.”

Pitch context

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • FlashforwardComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
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