Assessment
Tell whether the following statements is a foreshadowing, flashback or Medias Res. Write
your answer on your notebook.
1. It is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to
come later in the story.
2. It is a transition in a story to an earlier time that interrupts the normal
chronological order of events
3. When an author jumps back to a scene or event that happened in the past.
4. When an author gives hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in
the story.
5. Often appears at the beginning of a story or a chapter and helps the reader
develop expectations about the coming events in a story
6. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice
that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,
|| he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven 't had the advantages
that you've had.
7. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel AurelianoBuendia
was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time
Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that
ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs.
The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was
necessary to point.​