Narrative & Time
Analepsis
The flashback: the narration steps out of the present to tell earlier events. The past arrives when it will mean most, which shows that the narrator, not the calendar, controls the order.
"Some years ago…" — Ishmael looking back
Don't confuse it with Prolepsis. Prolepsis is its forward-facing mirror, the flash-forward.
In the Reader — 1 excerpt
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
The rest of the family
In Medias Res Prolepsis Foreshadowing Free Indirect Discourse Stream of Consciousness Stichomythia