Locate an example of a flashback in the story "Rules of the Game" and describe it. Include the definition of flashback in your answer, and support your response with evidence from the text.

Answer and Explanation:

"Rules of the Game" is a short story by author Amy Tan. The main character is an eight-year-old named Waverly Jong, the American daughter of Chinese immigrants.

The very first lines in the story are an example of flashback. Flashback is a technique that interrupts the chronological order of events of a story to go back to an earlier time. The narrator in "Rules of the Game" is Waverly herself. Her focus is on her eight-year-old self and what happened when she learned to play chess. However, she uses flashback at the beginning of the story to transition to a time, when she was only six-years-old, when her mother taught her a valuable lesson. We only notice this is a flashback a few lines later:

"I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, and eventually, though neither of us knew it at the time, chess games."

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