Literary Devices: Foreshadowing and Flashback

Why are foreshadowing and flashback often taught together?

• They both refer to a specific time in a story.

• They can be used together.

What is foreshadowing? 

• A literary device that gives hints of what is to come.

• A skill which we use to understand.

• A device which gives a writer advantage.

What is one way to create foreshadowing?

• Tell the reader what went wrong in the story.

• Show all the hints in the story.

• Create suspense in the story.

Which of the following is used to make bizarre events seem credible or realistic?

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

What is a flashback? 

• A part of the story that is taken out.

• An interruption in the story about a past event.

Flashback's can be used to....

• give the reader sympathy for a character- even a villain

• hint at the character's future

• tell the reader all the secrets

Romeo & Juliet's deaths are a great example of

• foreshadowing

• flashback

This quote has...

"A woman is about to get married. As she is getting dressed, she remembers meeting her fiancée four years before and thinking to herself "I want to marry that man." She smiles to herself as she prepares to walk down the aisle."

• foreshadowing

• flashback