Foreshadowing

Identify what foreshadowing is and analyze
how it is used

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Define foreshadowing

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Analyze how authors use foreshadowing

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Identify foreshadowing in a text

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use text evidence to support the claim

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Poll

Are you able to guess the ending of a movie?

• Yes

• NO

3

Multiple Choice

Which of the following clues can help you figure out the ending of a movie?

• Learning the motives of the characters.

• Being a good at guessing.

• Using your prediction skills.

• Looking at the setting.

Hint...

•Try breaking the word FORESHADOWING apart.

•FORE means ahead.

•A SHADOW is a glimpse of something without
the complete details.

4

Foreshadowing is not….

A character
stating
what he is
going to do.

A misdirection
that ties to fool
the audience.

Example:
A person has a dream about their death.

6

Foreshadowing is….

Similar to
what will

happen by the

story’s end.

A subtle hint
that indicates
what will
happen later.

Example:

“I saw it happen but it isn’t true. It can’t be”

(The Wife’s Story)

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Multiple Choice

Foreshadowing is a character saying what he wants.

• True

• False

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.

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

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

Multiple Choice

Carlos laughed when he thought about how scared he was in the haunted house at the carnival last year. He had no way of knowing he was about to face a fright that wasn’t meant to be fun.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Suspense

• Mood

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Suspense

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

Some text here about the topic of discussion

​​Flashback ​

The plot is interrupted to recreate an event of earlier time

​Things to remember.

​Great authors can use foreshadowing to hint at future events that will happen in the story. ​They also use it to build suspense. If you finish reading a story and realise you kind of knew the ending all along, it might be due to the author's use of foreshadowing!

Multiple Choice

Why do authors use foreshadowing?

• To reveal the climax.

• To move the plot forward.

• To generate or create suspense

• To establish mood.

Multiple Choice

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously

• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things

• A hint at something that will happen later

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Multiple Choice

What is the foreshadowing in this passage?

It was only 5:00AM, so everyone else in the house was still asleep. As they crept through the kitchen to the back door, Mary sniffed the air. It had the faint scent of coffee and something sweet. She shrugged it off and followed Justin out the door, down the back steps, and out onto the boat dock. The fog had settled over the lake, making it impossible to see anything.

• A)That Mary and Justin were going to go back to bed.

• B)That they might get into an accident or get lost on the lake because the fog made it impossible to see anything.

• D)That Mary and Justin were going to go for a nice boat ride across the lake.

• C)They were about to eat breakfast.

Multiple Select

What are some signs of foreshadowing through apprehension? The character...

• Begins to sweat and panic

• Experiences worry and feels uneasy

• Is happy and carefree

• Easily falls asleep and has wonderful dreams

Multiple Choice

 

Bambi's mother gives a lecture to Bambi on how dangerous the woods are.

What can this foreshadow?

• Bambi stays home

• Bambi starts crying

• none

• Bambi goes out to the woods and something happens

Multiple Choice

Which of these examples of flashback provide information about a place?

• Harry was reminded of his first job at the cracker factory

• Just like mum used to make them...

• This takes me back to my 18th birthday...

• Kind and gentle, just like grandma

Multiple Choice

 

As the old man watched the boys playing baseball in the vacant lot, he thought back to his own boyhood and the friends he’d had in his home town. They’d cleared debris and stray bushes from a lot and built their own baseball diamond, complete with an elevated pitcher’s mound. The old man remembered the feeling of standing on that mound, exchanging signals with the catcher, and winding up to throw a pitch.

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Flashback

Open Ended

Explain the foreshadowing in the following.

“Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.” –The Lion King