English Literature IGCSE
Foreshadowing
What Foreshadowing means in English Literature IGCSE, as defined for Cambridge International, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Foreshadowing
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A warning or indication of a future event.
A structural device where the writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
A literary device where the writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Topics that use Foreshadowing
- I'm the King of the Castle (Cambridge International IGCSE)
- Of Mice and Men (Cambridge International IGCSE)
- Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 (Selected) (Cambridge International IGCSE)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Cambridge International IGCSE)
- A View from the Bridge (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
- Great Expectations (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
- Macbeth (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
- Of Mice and Men (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
- Romeo and Juliet (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
- Things Fall Apart (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Pearson Edexcel IGCSE)
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