Reading Standard 3.6 Analyze and trace an author

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Reading Standard 3.6 Analyze and trace an
authors development of time sequence, including
the use of complex literary devicesMR. REDMOND
ENGLISH 9

• Flashback
• and Foreshadowing

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ATAMS CAHSEE Questions

• The literary response and analysis section of
  the CAHSEE contains 20 multiple choice
  questions.There are two questions on the CAHSEE
  regarding your understanding of Standard 3.6.

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Purpose

• Identifying flashbacks and foreshadowing helps
  you understand the sequence of events in the
  story.
• Flashbacks add information to the story.
• Foreshadowing helps the reader anticipate what
  might be coming.

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Order of Events

• Most stories are told in a certain order.
• Sequential order
• Chronological (time) order
• Writers use these strategies to tell a story.

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Clues to Sequences

• These words give you clues that the text is being
  told in chronological (time) order
• First
• Next
• Then
• Last
• Finally

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Flashback

• Sometimes authors need to tell you about events
  that happened before the story begins. To not
  confuse you, the author might stop the story to
  give you information about characters, events or
  conflicts in the past. When the author does this,
  it is called a flashback.

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Identifying a Flashback

• You can tell youre reading a flashback when the
  scene changes and the story flashes back to the
  past.
• Sometimes an entire chapter in story is a
  flashback.
• There may be more than one flashback within a
  story.
• Authors often give you clues, such as
• It all started when
• That brings us to today

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Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing is a warning or hint about an event
  that may happen in the future of the story.

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Identify Foreshadowing

• Look for incidents that happen early on in the
  story that might relate to a character.
• Look for clues which suggest what might happen
  next.
• NOTE A famous playwright wrote that if you put
  a gun onstage in Act I, you must use it by Act
  II.
• What might that mean?

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Example

• Youre reading a story and its set in an old
  house. The family is sitting at the table eating
  dinner when suddenly the lights go off and on
  without anyone touching the switch. The family
  goes on eating dinner and eventually they forget
  about the incident with the lights.
• What might the incident foreshadow?

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Making a Guess

• The incident with the lights foreshadows
  something bad that will happen in the story.

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Reading a Story

• Can you depict any Foreshadow-Flashbacks in Of
  Mice and Men?
• Think of George Lennie?
• Any foreshadow you can decipher with Curly?
  Curlys wife?