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Past scene inserted into a film's chronology
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flashback
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" Flashback " is the fifth Korean single album released by South Korean girl group , After School . The maxi-single marks the first appearance of fifth generation member, Kaeun. This also marks the first comeback since Kahi 's official graduation from the ...
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n. a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story [ant: flash-forward ] an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence ...
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flashback \flashback\ n. a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene; also, the scene thus introduced. An unusually vivid recollection of a prior experience, often one that is traumatic, such as scenes from combat ...
Usage examples of flashback.
I had a flashback, a moment of memorial deja vu, when the present and the past are morphed together by one thought, when one idea from the past and the present exists in such a way as to connect the two times around it, forming a nexus between the two moments.
She had a quick flashback to another chairlift ride, this one in Switzerland some two months before.
So was the neural damage, the demyelination, the flashbacks and the seizures, the symptoms of MS.
The first is that I sit here, hit this bottle of Old Bedwetter and fall into flashbacks of lost loves and hard times past.
Hood had a curious flashback to when he was a kid, hiding in the muted, woolly quiet of his parents' cedar closet.
There, in less than 500 words of narrative flashback and character study, is a facet of the hero that makes him more human, more sympathetic and his violence against another person more moving and acceptable.
Sandbag promptly astonished his companions with a flashback to his compulsory classical language courses, which neither Jack nor Dr Langer would have dreamed he had retained, even in this age of intensive secondary education.
Between 'Nam flashbacks and Freedom Rider reunions, Ellis coauthored the ground-breaking 1998 report "Jefferson Fathered Slave's Last Child.
In dreams as well as in waking life, she was trailed by this nasty flashback that impeded every aspect of her recovery.
Ever since they hove into this part of space, old memories had been surfacing, giving her flashbacks during her rest-times, and intruding into her conscious mind while she was doing easy tasks like calculations.
Of course you don't need a time machine to do that - the flashback is a standard literary device.
Yu Shu Lien strives to lead Jen onto the path of virtue, but following a duel between the two and a flashback sequence that reprises the inception of the love affair between the princess and the outlaw, Jen runs away.
As it did, another two wormholes collapsed, their energy flashbacks wrecking the generators.