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flashback
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[ noun ] (fine art,film,writing) a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)For_example , when the film is only four minutes old , Neitzbohr refers to a small , Victorian piano_stool as `` Wilhelmina '' , and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano_stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name , of_course , was Doris ( the English equivalent , when passed_through middle Gaelic derivations , of Wilhelmina ) . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
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