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 ==Flashback==
-A flashback occurs when the present story is interupted to show a scene that happened in the past.  Flashbacks help the reader bring some of the missing information in a story together.  The writer can also keep the past of a character secret which adds to the suspence and then finally reveals all with a flashback.
+Moving from events in the present to events in the past, and back to the present in a text or film. Cuddon states that flashback is “used to describe any scene or episode in a play, novel, story or poem which is inserted to show events that happened at an earlier time.” (321). Flashback is also referred to as analepsis or retrospect
+One use of flashback is “to fill in background information about characters and events.” (Baldick 9). Flashback helps to connect characters, situation, and events. In some cases, this allows the narrative to make more sense. For example, in  Babylon Revisited  Fitzgerald uses flashback to  explain why Charlie was trying to get his daughter back.
 ==External Link==
 [http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#f Glossary of Literary Terms: Flashback]