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."

what is   the question

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)