Flashback, foreshadowing and more
Create and edit literary texts that use narrative devices such as flashback, foreshadowing and symbolism to shape the reader's understanding and build suspense
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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables supports Flashback, foreshadowing and more. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Check understanding
- Write a narrative that includes a flashback that reveals a character's past
- Add foreshadowing to a draft (e.g. an early hint about a coming storm) and explain how it builds suspense
- Edit a draft to strengthen one narrative device and annotate the change and its intended effect on the reader
“When your child writes a story, do they experiment with tricks like a flashback to a character's past, or an early hint about what's coming?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Writing Composition
- Age range
- Ages 11–12
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