Achronological vs Flashback - What's the difference?
achronological | flashback |
(chiefly, literature, film) Not chronological; proceeding through time in a nonlinear fashion
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=October 14, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Muddled Americans, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Another reason was the apparently inspired pairing of screenwriter Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg, two dark poets of psychic subtexts and achronological memory flashes. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2003, date=September 26, author=Martha Bayne, title=Things Are Going Very Well for Audrey Niffenegger, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The Time Traveler's Wife tracks the achronological course of their lifelong love affair. }}
a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative
(psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs
a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug
the condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system
As an adjective achronological
is (chiefly|literature|film) not chronological; proceeding through time in a nonlinear fashion.As a noun flashback is
flashback.achronological
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