Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Time, chronology & narrative form · Working

Flashforward

Also called: prolepsis

ELI5

A scene or passage that moves the story to a later time.

Used in conversation

“Can we make the flashforward clearer in the next draft?”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Flashforward” in story, structure & screenplay conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • FlashbackComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.