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in media res
Beginning the story in the middle of a sequence of events. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, are prime examples. The latter work begins with the return of Odysseus to his home of Ithaka and then in flashbacks tells of his ten years of wandering following the Trojan War.
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