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Definition of Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Foreshadowing can be achieved directly or indirectly, by making... read full definition
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Foreshadowing can be achieved... read full definition
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the... read full definition
Part 1, Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Building Suspense:
Within the nonlinear storytelling of Beloved, the novel presents the reader with fragmented images of the past that foreshadow eventual flashbacks. For example, Sethe uses the imagery of mossy teeth to reflect her fear of white boys in Chapter 3:
The voice, saying, “Who’s in there?” was all she needed to know that she was about to be discovered by a whiteboy. That he too had mossy teeth, an appetite. That on a ridge of pine near the Ohio River, trying to get to her three children, one of whom was starving for the food she carried; that after her husband had disappeared; that after her milk had been stolen, her back pulped, her children orphaned, she was not to have an easeful death. No.
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Part 1, Chapter 14
Explanation and Analysis—Building Suspense:
Within the nonlinear storytelling of Beloved, the novel presents the reader with fragmented images of the past that foreshadow eventual flashbacks. For example, Sethe uses the imagery of mossy teeth to reflect her fear of white boys in Chapter 3:
Unlock with LitCharts A+The voice, saying, “Who’s in there?” was all she needed to know that she was about to be discovered by a whiteboy. That he too had mossy teeth, an appetite. That on a ridge of pine near the Ohio River, trying to get to her three children, one of whom was starving for the food she carried; that after her husband had disappeared; that after her milk had been stolen, her back pulped, her children orphaned, she was not to have an easeful death. No.
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