How does the use of flashback impact the way a story is told? Flashbacks interrupt the chronological telling of a narrative.
Flashbacks give the reader a more vivid image of the events unfolding.
Flashbacks add to the suspense of a story.
Flashbacks make the narrator appear more reliable.

When did beowulf arrives beside a black rock overhanging the pool, what does he find?

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

The book the lord of the rings by j r r tolkien, in which the main character must go on a journey to destroys magic ring, is an expample of which plot archetype