Foreshadowing, Flashback, and Suspense

Literary Devices:

Foreshadowing, Flashback, and Suspense

Hints or clues about what will happen later in a story

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• creates suspense​

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Foreshadowing

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The anxiety a reader feels about what will ​happen next in a story

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Suspense

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The plot is interrupted to recreate an event of an earlier time

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• explains how past affects the present​

• gives more info about characters​

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Flashback

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Multiple Choice

Often times provides background information 

• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• theme
• resolution

Multiple Choice

Suspense

• Learning information quickly through a series of events
• When the author holds back information to create excitement
• When the author gives information so the reader understands what is going on
• A detailed description of a setting in a novel

Multiple Choice

 “Remember, Cinderella,” warned her fairy godmother, “you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember.”
“Of course, I’ll remember,” said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music.

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• climax

Multiple Choice

Foreshadowing can be found___________.

• in the descriptions of the setting or the characters

• in the dialogue

• in the attitudes or reactions of the characters

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Which of these sentences includes the best example of foreshadowing?

• When Penny left the house, she didn't know that was the last time she would ever see her family.

• It was cold outside, so Harriet put on a hat and scarf on her way out the door.

• After years of hard word, Trevon was proud to say he'd been accepted to Harvard.

• Greg's favorite food was lasagna; he would eat it every day if he could!