What is the meaning of flashback?

noun

  • A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story.
  • 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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