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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 Up From Slavery
Chapter 3: The Struggle for an Education
Explanation and Analysis—The First Library:
Near the beginning of Up from Slavery, Washington builds a small “library” for himself while still a child, foreshadowing his development of the Tuskegee Institute (complete with the construction of an actual library):
Mrs. Ruffner always encouraged and sympathized with me in all my efforts to get an education. It was while living with her that I began to get together my first library. I secured a dry-goods box, knocked out one side of it, put some shelves in it, and began putting into it every kind of book that I could get my hands upon, and called it my “library.”
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Chapter 5: The Reconstruction Period
Explanation and Analysis—Rufus Brown Bullock:
When sharing his opinions on the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, Washington alludes to people considered to be “carpetbaggers,” such as “ex-Governor Bullock,” defending them in the process:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Neither were all the class designated as carpetbaggers dishonourable men. Some of them, like ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, were men of high character and usefulness.
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