What is the difference between

foreshadowing and a flashback?Composition Books!

LITERARY ELEMENTS

Concept:Plot

Concept:Theme

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?

Lesson Essential Questions:

· How do I identify flashback in a passage or story?

· How do I identify foreshadowing in a passage or story?

Lesson Essential Questions:

· How do I recognize implied and stated theme?

Unit Essential Question: How does an author use the elements of fiction to create a story?

Concept:Flashback and Foreshadowing

Vocabulary: Exposition ,Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement, Complication, Conflict, Setting

Vocabulary:FlashbackForeshadowing

Vocabulary:Implied ThemeStated Theme

Foreshadowing

How do I identify foreshadowing within a text?

Foreshadowing Activator

Listen to these sound clips…What does this one make you think of?

What about this one?

What is Foreshadowing?

Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story. You can think of foreshadowing as a way of giving the reader a chance to make a predication about what might happen next in the story.

What is Foreshadowing?

Writers use a variety of techniques to give the reader/watcher hints as to what is to come:Movies and TV Shows: musicStories: words that give away emotions (anxious, nervous, excited, etc…)

Be on the look out for subtle hints of foreshadowing.

Example of Foreshadowing

"NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."

~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~

What do you think might happen next?

Example of Foreshadowing

Sam wished he could rid himself of the sick feeling in his gut that told him something terrible was going to happen, and happen soon.

What do you think might happen next?

Foreshadowing Activity

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Power Question 11. Sarah closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

It was exactly a year ago today that she stood in this very same spot, trying to do the very same thing. “How could I be doing this?” Sarah thought to herself. She took a deep breath and recalled that embarrassing and humiliating time. She had sung on stage a million times, but, for some reason, that night was different. As she gazed out in the into the crowd, she saw them. They never came, yet there they were. Sarah’s breath had quickened and her heart began to beat a mile a minute. “I can’t do this,” she mumbled as she fled the stage.And now, exactly a year later, Sarah stood, ready to head out on stage. She hoped she was ready.

A. ForeshadowingB. ExpositionC. FlashbackD. Dénouement

Power Question 22. Robinson Crusoe (paraphrased excerpt) Daniel DefoeBeing the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade,

my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house education a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law, but I would be satisfied with nothing but going out to sea. My inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands, of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.

The author uses the reaction of Robinson Crusoe’s family and friends to give the reader hints of what may happen in the story.

This is known as ________________.A. ExpositionB. FlashbackC. ExaggerationD. Foreshadowing

Power Question 33. The dark storm clouds rolled across the

lake and Rebecca couldn’t help but shiver. The ominous feeling the black clouds gave her made her pull her wool coat closely around her. She started walking faster and faster, hoping that whatever was coming would pass quickly and wouldn’t hurt too badly.

This is an example of:A. ForeshadowingB. ExpositionC. FlashbackD. Dénouement

Answers to Power Questions

1. C. Flashback2. D. Foreshadowing3. A. Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing Summarizer

Ticket Out the DoorWrite a “Dear Absent Student Letter” Start the letter with “Dear Absent Student,” and explain in detail what we learned in class today.

What is a FLASHBACK? Flashback is an interruption in the

present action of a story to tell about something that happened in the past—a jump back in time.

Example: I couldn’t believe I had been tricked!

All of a sudden I remembered back to a summer long ago when My brother and I had gone to stay with our grandparents in the country . . .

What about a FLASH FORWARD?

Flash-forward is a jump in time. After a flashback, the author often flashes forward returning to the present time or a time in the future.

Example: Margaret angrily threw the toy locomotive, and although it missed her brother Samuel, a tiny piece of mama’s precious mantle clock disappeared. One dainty leg was gone. Margaret tenderly touched the rough place where the missing leg had been. Carefully rewrapping the clock in its tissue, she laid it back into the old trunk as her grandchildren slammed the kitchen door. Someday she would share her memories with them.