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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 Pilgrim’s Progress
Part 1: Vanity Fair
Explanation and Analysis—Many Tribulations:
As Christian and Faithful journey through a wilderness, they catch up with Evangelist, who encourages them about the journey ahead. When Christian presses Evangelist for a more specific prophecy of what's to come, he obliges them with words of foreshadowing:
My Sons, you have heard, in the words of the truth of the Gospel, that you must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And again, that in every City bonds and afflictions abide in you; and therefore you cannot expect that you should go long on your Pilgrimage without them, in some sort or other. [...] [Y]ou will soon come into a Town [...] and in that Town you will be hardly beset with enemies [...] and be ye sure that one or both of you must seal the testimony which you hold, with blood; but be you faithful unto death, and the King will give you a Crown of life.
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