LITERARY
E l e m e n t s
Paola Garcia 8A #8
L e s s o n
Definition:
Foreshadowing is a literary device where a the omniscient author gives the reader hints through words phrases or sentences of an upcoming event in the story without spoiling the suspense or revealing the story. It suggest the outcome of the story.
Example:
She went to library feeling like a mess
A very young handsome man approached smiling
Yet she would never have guessed
That was the man that would change everything
Explanation: In this little poem I made, the sentence “Yet she would never have guessed, that was the man that would change everything” the girl is completely unaware of how that man “would change everything”, as a reader we just know the man has to do something on how everything will change drastically.
published Example:
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveler to the shore.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Explanation: This poem’s first sentence “The Tide rises, the tide falls,” tells how the story starts with the tide rising and hints how it will end (tide falls). It foretells the entire poem on how nature and life begins and ends always.
Foreshadowing
