"You'll never believe what happened to me today," Mom said to me as she walked through the door of our house. "It's a long story
, but it's really important that you should hear about it, as it involves you, too."From this beginning, what can the reader presume will happen next? A) Mom will gossip about the neighbors. B) Mom will talk about her plans for the coming day. C) Mom will tell her story in a flashback sequence. D) Mom will decline to tell her story.
Answer: Option (C). Mom will tell her story in a flashback sequence.
Explanation: A flash back that is sometimes referred to as analeptics. It is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. It should be noted that flashback are often used to recount events that has happened sometimes in the past. In the passage the mother intends to start narrating the event that has happened previously to the son as she walked through the door of the house. Explaining or narrating events of the past to someone or some group of people is simply known as flashback.