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Narrative & Time

Foreshadowing

Details planted early that quietly predict later events, fully readable only in hindsight. On first pass they set the mood; on second pass they prove the design.

Romeo's "my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars."

Don't confuse it with Prolepsis. Prolepsis states the future outright; foreshadowing only seeds it. Chekhov's gun is its craft maxim.

Drill its family — Narrative & Time

In the Reader — 1 excerpt

You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen.
— Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections · open the passage →

Travels with

Devices that share a passage with foreshadowing most often — company reveals character.

Personification 3

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