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Dramatic Irony
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
Chapter 3: Tom’s Meeting with the Prince
Explanation and Analysis—The Same Form and Stature:
When Tom and Edward trade clothes, Edward prophesies several elements of the story’s plot in a moment of foreshadowing:
“Thou has the same hair, and the same eyes, the same voice and manner, the same form and stature, the same face and countenance that I bear. Fared we forth naked, there is none could say which was you, and which the Prince of Wales. And, now that I am clothed as thou wert clothed, it seemth that I should be able the more nearly to feel as thou didst [when the soldier struck you] [...]. ”
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