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- DictionaryFlash·back/ˈflaSHˌbak/
noun
- 1. a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story: "in a series of flashbacks, we follow the pair through their teenage years"
- 2. a flame moving rapidly back through a combustible vapour: "cooling the area prevented a flashback"
verb
- 1. move to a scene in a movie, novel, etc. that is set in a time earlier than the main story: "we flashbacked to a pivotal, defining moment in his life"
1. : to focus one's mind on or vividly remember a past time or incident usually used with to. flashed back to my childhood. 2. : to employ a flashback (as in a film) usually used with to. Synonyms. Verb.
Aug 23, 2021 · Last updated: Aug 23, 2021 • 4 min read. When writing a work of fiction, an author can take the reader out of the present story and jump into an earlier time period in a character’s life. This narrative tool is called a flashback.
Oct 28, 2022 · Emotional flashbacks describe the experience of being reminded of past trauma and your body responding by replicating the emotions you felt during the trauma. The symptoms of emotional...
A flashback, or involuntary recurrent memory, is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be frightful, happy, sad, exciting, or any number of other emotions. [1]
Dec 21, 2018 · There is relatively little empirical research into the flashback phenomenon. Nevertheless, flashbacks are a common distressing symptom people experience in the aftermath of surviving a...
noun. a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. an event or scene so inserted. Also called flash·back hal·lu·ci·no·sis [ flash, -bak h, uh, -loo-s, uh, -, noh, -sis]. Psychiatry.
Definition of a Flashback. In literature, a flashback is an occurrence in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current point of the story. The definition of flashback is identical to that of analepsis, which comes from the Greek for “the act of taking up.”
