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CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
CAHSEE 1.3 Passage Drill. Which of the following is the best way to express the meaning of the word alumni in this sentence?
CAHSEE 1.2 Passage Drill. Which of these sentences from the story best illustrates the sensitive side of the narrator's nature?
CAHSEE ELA 8.1 Literary Devices 412 Views
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CAHSEE ELA 8.1 Literary Devices. What effect is achieved by using a flashback?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour... What effect is achieved by using a flashback?
- 00:11
And here are the potential answers:
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So... what is this question asking?
- 00:18
Well, it's really a vocab word question -- what is a flashback?
- 00:22
What IS a flashback? See? We just had one... kinda.
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- 00:25
A flashback is where we... flash... back. Or backwards in TIME.
- 00:31
So the key word is TIME...and not the magazine or the herb.
- 00:35
If we look through the answers... A is about the next event...
- 00:39
Well, as our stockbroker would tell us, past performance is no guarantee of future results...
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so A isn't relevant.
- 00:45
And neither is C -- which focuses on the PRESENT state of mind -- flashbacks are...
- 00:50
of the past... not the NOW.
- 00:52
So B is the only one that'll work here -- flashbacks add context to the present.
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Our answer is B.
- 00:59
As in, "Back before we knew the answer to this question..."
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