ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Foreshadowing is a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, and it helps develop or subvert the audience’s expectations about upcoming events.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prominent foreshadowing, sometimes known as “prophecy”, connects a future event to something that a particular character wishes for, receives, or says outright. Whether through exaggerated or subtle foreshadowing, a prophecy gives the audience an inkling of events to come.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. an indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments: The gothic novel uses foreshadowing to build suspense.

Detailed explanation-4: -Foreshadowing is a literary device that alludes to a later point in the story. For example, if a character mentions offhandedly that bad things always happen to them in autumn, then the observant reader will be alert when the leaves in the story begin to fall.

Detailed explanation-5: -Covert Foreshadowing. Overt Foreshadowing. Event Foreshadowing. Purposeful Foreshadowing.