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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
Key Examples in Gulliver's Travels
Book 2, Chapter 8
Explanation and Analysis—Phaeton:
Book 2, Chapter 8 of Gulliver's Travels contains a classical allusion that also functions as a moment of foreshadowing. In this chapter, Gulliver departs Brobdingnag unexpectedly when a bird carries his box away by the ring on its roof and subsequently drops it into the ocean. The ship captain who rescues him finds similarities between Gulliver's plight and that of a figure from Greek mythology:
[T]he Comparison of Phaeton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the Conceit.
