The document discusses flashbacks and foreshadowing as literary devices. Flashbacks are past events inserted into a story to provide context, while foreshadowing gives hints about future events. Both techniques allow readers to better understand characters and anticipate what will happen by using clues like dialogue, conflicts or chapter titles. Students are assigned to find examples of each in assigned texts and analyze their significance.

1. S
Flashback &
Foreshadowing

2. Flashback
S Flashbacks are when writers insert past events into a
story to provide background information or context to the
current events of a story.
S By using flashbacks, authors allow readers to better
understand a character’s motivation or the background to
a current conflict.
S Dreams and memories are common ways authors
present flashbacks within a story.

3. Flashback
S Identify the FLASHBACK in this clip:

4. Foreshadowing
S Foreshadowing is when a writer gives an advance hint of
what is to come later in the story.
S Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story
or chapter and helps the reader predict what will happen
later in the text.
S Authors might use dialogue, conflicts, or even chapter
titles as clues to suggest what is going to happen.

5. Foreshadowing
S Identify the foreshadowing in this clip:

6. Reading Journal
S HONORS: Read through page 24 in The Other Wes Moore.
S ENG II: Read through the top of page 27 in Monster.
S EVERYONE: In your reading journal, select one quote that is
an example of flashback AND one quote that is potentially an
example of foreshadowing.
S Analyze WHAT the quotes say and WHY they are significant to
understanding the main idea of the text.
S When you are finished, show Mrs. Turnmire.