Flashback

A [|flashback]is when someone goes into a sort of daydream state where their mind goes back in time to remember something, very vividly. It is also a scene in a movie or novel in a set time earlier than the main story. A good example of this is in The Girl who loved Tom Gordan. As Trisha realizes she may never be found she gets flash backs of her mother and brother fighting, and her dad drinking a beer in the backyard. Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are commonly used to recount events that happened in the past of what you are reading currently.