Death of a Salesman

1. One of the major characters in the play, WIlly Loman did some daydreaming and slipped back to the past in the middle of a present conversation with his family. It happened in several scenes in the play. What do you call this type of literary technique?

Death of a Salesman - Act 1 or Act 2 or both

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That would be called a "flashback".

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