Look up: Foreshadowing

1. Foreshadowing
   literary device whereby the author gives hints about what is going to happen later in the story.
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2. foreshadowing
   the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for ...
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3. foreshadowing
   Events are described and arranged in comedy or tragedy in such a way that future events are prepared for or shadowed forth in advance. In other words, the reader or audience feels the outcome of a plot. That requires that the narrator or author gives hints at what is about to happen later in the story.
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4. foreshadowing
   
   • providing vague advance indications
   • indicate by signs
   
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5. Foreshadowing
   `Foreshadowing` is a literary device in which an author suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story. Repetitive designation and Chekhov`s gun: The hardest form of foreshadowing was the way things are implied by mentioning an element that will be used later in the story. Usu...
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