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fore⋅shad⋅ow
[fawr-shad-oh, fohr-] 
oʊ
–verb (used with object)
| to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war. |
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| fore·shad·ow (fôr-shād'ō, fōr-) tr.v. fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage. fore·shad'ow·er n. |
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foreshadowing
the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. This can be part of the general atmosphere of the work, or it can be a specific scene or object that gives a clue or hint as to a later development of the plot. The disastrous flood that occurs at the end of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), for example, is foreshadowed by many references to the river and to water in general throughout the book.
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