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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 The Devil and Tom Walker
Foreshadowing
Explanation and Analysis—Captain Kidd's End:
Before the narrator introduces the reader to the story's main character, he pauses to recount the story of William Kidd, also known as Captain Kidd, a notorious pirate active about two decades before the story is set. The events of Kidd’s life—his rise to wealth and his ultimate downfall—foreshadow those of Tom's.
Under one of these gigantic trees, according to old stories, there was a great amount of treasure buried by Kidd the pirate [...] The old stories add, moreover, that the devil presided at the hiding of the money, and took it under his guardianship; but this, it is well known, he always does with buried treasure, particularly when it has been ill-gotten. Be that as it may, Kidd never returned to recover his wealth; being shortly after seized at Boston, sent out to England, and there hanged for a pirate.
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