FLASHBACK  

NARRATIO in which the narrator suddenly moves radically back in time.

追敘法

Hypernym
  • NARRATIOSPEECH ACT which consists in the reporting of events.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
In ZUO flashbacks are common and are alway introduced with 初 . Elsewhere, the formula is sometimes 先 "before that..."

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 韓非子 夫人先誡御者曰：

      Marked by 先 .