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Flash-forward

[flash-fawr-werd] /ˈflæʃˈfɔr wərd/

noun
1.
a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
2.
an event or scene so inserted.

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