AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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It took place at nightfall.
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It was a moody and spooky story.
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It contained clues to events yet to happen.
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It had descriptions of shadows in the woods.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Foreshadowing Examples in To Build a Fire: The man’s inability to properly read his environment sets him at odds with it. The dropping temperature, along with his naivety, foreshadows events to come. London uses “pall” in both senses of the word.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the beginning of “To Build a Fire, ” the omniscient narrator comments on the man’s lack of interest in the landscape, thus foreshadowing his fate later in the story: The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.
Detailed explanation-3: -Foreshadowing in fiction creates an atmosphere of suspense in a story so that the readers are interested and want to know more. The literary device is generally used to build anticipation in the minds of readers about what might happen next to add dramatic tension to a story.