Foreshadowing What is foreshadowing? - A literary device - An advance hint of what’s to come - Helps readers or audience to develop expectations - Helps to create atmosphere of ‘suspense’ What is foreshadowing? Foreshadow can be shown through: - Dialogue - Event - Action - Title or chapter title Examples Theus Let foreshadows watch two examples in the links from were theshown following: through: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE0ISlj8 wo8 1. Event 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yofeMU 2. MquEw Action Let us identify! There live a teenage girl, living with her singleparent mom. She leaves the house for an evening out with her friends. Her mother makes her promise to be back before midnight. The girl kisses her mother and tells her she worries too much. “I’ll be fine, mom,” she says. What might happen? 1. The daughter does not make it home safely. 2. Her mom is in danger instead. Let us identify! When a man goes downstairs for breakfast, he sees his lucky horseshoe (some kind of good luck charm) has fallen off the shelf. What might happen? 1. Terrible things will happen to the man. 2. There is an earthquake. Let us identify! Let us identify! “When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.” What effect does this passage bring to readers? 1. Something called the reaping is about to happen, and it’s nightmare-inducing. 2. Readers want to know what the reaping is. It is your T-U-R-N 1. Make a passage with ‘foreshadowing’ through dialogue, event or action (you can pick more than 1). 2. The passage can be your original work or a scene taken from books, movies or tv series that you know of. 3. State the foreshadowing and the event that comes out of it.
