Question

__________ is the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur.

Answer 1

Answer:

Chronological order is the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur.

Explanation:

When writing, authors have the freedom to arrange the events in whichever way they consider best to tell the story. When they choose to tell the events in the sequence they happened in time, they are telling them in chronological order. For example, a book about a character's life that tells events of his childhood, moving on to his adulthood and, finally, to his death as an old man follows the chronological order. Sometimes, authors can choose to go back in time, to tell an event that happened prior to that moment so that the audience will receive important information concerning a character. That is a flashback. Authors can also choose to flash forward and show a future event. In these two cases, chronological order is not being respected.