Context Clues Definition and Overview

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Argus High School
English Lesson 23 Order Timing
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Literary Response and Analysis

• Order and Timing

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Vocabulary

• Flashback the scene shifts and goes back in
  time.
• Foreshadowing gives clues about what will happen
  later in the story.

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Order
Authors dont always start at the beginning of a
story and pass smoothly on to the end. Sometimes
they start in the middle of the story, go forward
a bit, then back a bit, then forward again to
finish off. Authors do this to make you more
interested in their stories.

• Stories arent always told in order. Writers like
  to jump form one time to another.

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• If a book starts with an odd situation say a
  hot air balloon landing on the Eiffel Tower it
  makes you wonder whats going on.

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• Monsieur Augustine lay unconscious in the
  corner of the basket. Helen crept forward and
  looked over the edge. Hundreds of feet below the
  dark streets lay silent and empty. Above, the
  balloon was caught by the wind. The basket began
  to drop.

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• If the story then branches off to a different
  time its because the author wants to get you
  hooked.

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• Fog was rolling over the Bay. Monsieur
  Augustine was cold. He did 100 push-ups on the
  floor of his cell.

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• Now you might be wondering
• Whether Monsieur Augustine was in jail before or
  after the balloon accident
• How Monsieur Augustine ended up in the balloon
• What will happen next to Helen
• So you want to read on.

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Flashback

• Flashbacks get used frequently in the movies.
  What happens is that the story is going along
  nicely in the present, and suddenly the scene
  shifts to the week before or some years before.

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Flashback
A story about an adult could dip in and out of
their childhood.
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Flashback
A story about a family could switch around from
one generation to another.
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Flashback
Crime stories often have flashbacks to explain
how the crime was committed.
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• When the flashback is over, the scene returns to
  the present.

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Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing gives clues about whats going to
  happen later on in the story.

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Foreshadowing
In The Jungle Book Baloo and Bagheera warn Mowgli
that the monkeys are trouble.
Later on Mowgli gets kidnapped by the monkeys.
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Foreshadowing
Everything they predict comes true though not
always the way Macbeth expects.
At the start of Macbeth the Witches predict what
will happen to Macbeth.
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Review

• Flashback the scene shifts and goes back in
  time.
• Foreshadowing gives clues about what will happen
  later in the story.

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Answer these questions

1. Foreshadowing gives clues about A) what
happened in the past B) what is happening in
the present C) what will happen in the
future D) none of the above
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Answer these questions

2. When a flashback is over the scene returns to
the A) past C) present B) beginning D) end
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Answer these questions

3. True or false? All fiction uses foreshadowing
and flashbacks.
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Answer these questions

4. Flashbacks give information about things that
have happened in the A) present C) future B)
past D) none of the above
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Answers

1. C) what will happen in the future 2. C)
present 3. False 4. B) past
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The End