foreshadowing
an indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments: The gothic novel uses foreshadowing to build suspense.
Origin of foreshadowing
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How to use foreshadowing in a sentence
It is these foreshadowings of future beauties, that make these early works so interesting.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksTypes are foreshadowings, and wherever there is a shadow there must be substance.
Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study | Dwight MoodyWith Kysh Students and Jiu-jutsu contain some surprising foreshadowings of the then unsuspected future.
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 | Elizabeth BislandThis, and indeed other fugues of Kuhnau show strong foreshadowings of Handel and Bach; of this matter, however, more anon.
The Pianoforte Sonata | J.S. ShedlockOur readers will, perhaps, be tired of our noticing foreshadowings of Beethoven, yet we must add others here.
The Pianoforte Sonata | J.S. Shedlock
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