Which lines in this passage are a flashback? Helen stood at one end of the room taking in all the activity; Rupert and Phoebe da
nced to the loud music that drowned all other voices. Food, friends, music—how they brought people together. She thought of her last day in middle school, seven years ago, when Sarah had given her an iPod. She had felt ecstatic that day when she realized she would be able to listen to her favorite songs and fend off comments from her cousins about how little she knew about music. She smiled as she drew out the envelope from her clutch. Tomorrow at this time she would be performing solo at the Royal Hall of Music; she could almost hear the thunderous applause. The music stopped and Phoebe called out her name. Helen almost dropped the envelope as she walked up to congratulate Phoebe.
A flashback is a <u>narrative device by which a past event is described and inserted into the story, although it does not follow the chronological order of events</u>. The lines that are a flashback are the following:
<em>She thought of her last day in middle school, seven years ago, when Sarah had given her an iPod. She had felt ecstatic that day when she realized she would be able to listen to her favorite songs and fend off comments from her cousins about how little she knew about music.</em>
<span>"As each salty wall of water approached (it shut all else from the view of the men) in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that (this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean) (the last effort of the grim water.)" this is the part that applies</span>
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