Foreshadowing, Flashforwards, and Flashbacks_The Westing Game

"But the Wexler apartment was exactly where the bomber planned to set the next bomb" is an example of which type of literary device used in The Westing Game?

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• imagery

• allusion

True or false:

The following is an example of foreshadow: "Waiting in her closet of a room Turtle stared at the white-weighted branches of the maple on the hill. A twig snapped in silence, a flurry speckled the crusted snow." (pg 74)

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True or false:

The statement "The sun set in a blaze of glory, hinting at the chaos to come" is an example of foreshadowing.

In The Westing Game, which literary device is demonstrated by the phrase "The clock ticked ominously, each second a step closer to the inevitable"?

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• foreshadowing

• alliteration

True or false:

The phrase "The dark clouds gathered, whispering secrets of the storm ahead" is an example of foreshadowing.

In literature, which literary device is illustrated by the sentence "The wind howled through the trees, a harbinger of the night's events"?

• simile

• personification

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

True or false:

The sentence "As the sun dipped below the horizon, a chill crept into the air, hinting at the danger lurking in the shadows" is an example of foreshadowing.