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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
Foreshadowing
Explanation and Analysis—The Child's Deafness:
While the narrator does not make it clear until the final lines of the story that the child protagonist is deaf and mute, they foreshadow this fact throughout the story. For example, when the boy gets lost in the forest, he calls with "inarticulate cries" for his mother (foreshadowing that he is mute), and, as the wounded soldiers drag themselves through the forest, the narrator describes how this all happened “in silence profound, absolute” (foreshadowing that the boy is deaf).
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