Foreshadowing
How do I identify foreshadowing
within a text?
LITERARY
ELEMENTS
Key Learning: Writers use the elements of fictionplot, conflict, flashback, foreshadowing, setting, and
theme- to create a story. 701.3.2, 701.7.6, 701.8.5,
701.8.7, 701.8.9, 701.8.11
Unit Essential Question: How does an author use the elements of
fiction to create a story?
Concept:
Concept:
Plot
Lesson Essential
•How do I distinguish among
the 5 basic elements of plot
and place them on a plot
diagram?
How do I identify the four
main types of conflict in a
literary plot and in non-print
media?
What aspects of the story
should be considered when
determining the setting of a
story?
What clues help a reader
identifiy the setting of a
story?
Vocabulary:
Exposition ,Rising
Action, Climax, Falling
Action,
Resolution/Denouement,
Complication, Conflict,
Setting
Flashback and
Foreshadowing
Concept:
Theme
Lesson Essential
Questions:
Lesson Essential
Questions:
How do I identify
flashback in a passage or
story?
How do I identify
foreshadowing in a
passage or story?
How do I recognize
implied and stated
theme?
Vocabulary:
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Vocabulary:
Implied Theme
Stated Theme
Foreshadowing Activator
 Listen
to these sound clips…
 What
does this one make you think of?
 What
about this one?
What is Foreshadowing?
 Foreshadowing
is a literary device in
which an author drops subtle hints
about plot developments to come later
in the story.
 You
can think of foreshadowing as a way
of giving the reader a chance to make a
predication about what might happen next
in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
 Writers
use a variety of techniques to
give the reader/watcher hints as to
what is to come:
 Movies
and TV Shows: music
 Stories: words that give away emotions
(anxious, nervous, excited, etc…)
 Be
on the look out for subtle hints of
foreshadowing.
Example of Foreshadowing
"NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one
morning, "you may go into the fields or down
the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's
garden: your Father had an accident there; he
was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."
~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~
What do you think might happen next?
Example of Foreshadowing
Sam wished he could rid himself of
the sick feeling in his gut that told him
something terrible was going to happen,
and happen soon.
What do you think might happen next?
Foreshadowing Activity
Event
Clue It Would
Happen
Page #
Event
Clue It Would
Happen
Event
Event
Event
Clue It Would
Happen
Clue It Would
Happen
Event
Event
Power Question 1
1.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sarah closed her eyes and took a deep breath. It was exactly a
year ago today that she stood in this very same spot, trying to
do the very same thing. “How could I be doing this?” Sarah
thought to herself. She took a deep breath and recalled that
embarrassing and humiliating time.
She had sung on stage a million times, but, for some reason,
that night was different. As she gazed out in the into the
crowd, she saw them. They never came, yet there they were.
Sarah’s breath had quickened and her heart began to beat a
mile a minute. “I can’t do this,” she mumbled as she fled the
stage.
And now, exactly a year later, Sarah stood, ready to head out
on stage. She hoped she was ready.
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Flashback
Dénouement
Power Question 2
2. Robinson Crusoe (paraphrased excerpt)
Daniel Defoe
Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head began to be
filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient,
had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house education a
country free school generally go, and designed me for the law, but I would
be satisfied with nothing but going out to sea. My inclination to this led
me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands, of my father, and
against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends,
that there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature
tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.

The author uses the reaction of Robinson Crusoe’s family and friends to
give the reader hints of what may happen in the story.
This is known as ________________.
A.
Exposition
B.
Flashback
C.
Exaggeration
D.
Foreshadowing
Power Question 3
3. The dark storm clouds rolled across the lake and
Rebecca couldn’t help but shiver. The ominous
feeling the black clouds gave her made her pull her
wool coat closely around her. She started walking
faster and faster, hoping that whatever was coming
would pass quickly and wouldn’t hurt too badly.
This is an example of:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Foreshadowing
Exposition
Flashback
Dénouement
Answers to Power Questions
1.
2.
3.
C. Flashback
D. Foreshadowing
A. Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing Summarizer
 Ticket
Out the Door
 Write
a “Dear Absent Student Letter”
 Start the letter with “Dear Absent
Student,” and explain in detail what we
learned in class today.