reverse chronology
Events told backwards
Reverse chronology is the arrangement of events starting from the most recent and working backward in time.
It's the standard format for résumés, where your current job comes first, and for social media feeds, where the newest post appears at the top.
Narratives told in reverse chronology—like the film *Memento*—reveal causes after their effects.
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- timelineOrdered display of events
- backwardsToward what's behind
- rewindReturn to beginning
- time loopRepeated span of existence
memoir · narrative · frame story · storytelling · unravel · piecing together · memory · memory lane · countdown · epilogue · beginning · ending · descent · unfolding · retrospective · hindsight · prologue · jumbled
reverse chronologynon-linear narrative
Story not told chronologically
random order · stream of consciousness · in medias res · parallel narrative · alphabetical order
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