Narrative technique
Flashback
Also known as: analepsis
Interrupting the present-time narrative to depict an earlier event, filling in backstory or motive.
Flashback in fiction: 1 work
Odysseus's lengthy narration to the Phaeacians details the events of his journey from Troy up to his arrival on their island.
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