: When we start a book from the climax (from the middle of the chapter), what is it called? Let's say that we have a plot that goes from A-Z and M is the middle (climax) part of it. There
Let's say that we have a plot that goes from A-Z and M is the middle (climax) part of it. There is this style of writing in which we start from M, then again back to A-Z.
At the start of a book is the chapter containing that M. What is it called? Prologue? Prelude? Or is it something else? I've Googled for this for almost 20 minutes with no luck. It isn't mentioned anywhere.
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TVTropes.org refers to this as
How We Got Here
A type of In Medias Res/Whole Episode Flashback, where the story opens at a point at the middle or near the end of the story, and the bulk of the story is spent showing how the character got to this point.
A great example would be the episode of Firefly called "Trash" that opens with Mal sitting naked on a rock in the desert saying "Yep...yep, that went well."
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