Foreshadowing in Literature

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Foreshadowing in Literature
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What is Foreshadowing?

• The use in a literary work of clues that suggest
  events that have yet to occur
• Creates suspense
• Keeps reader interested in what will happen next
• Use hints at future events to predict outcomes

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Concrete Foreshadowing

• Objects, people, colors, places, or events used
  to suggest events that have yet to occur
• Usually something characters physically see

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Abstract Foreshadowing

• Themes, words, sounds, and other intangible clues
  
• Author mentions a characters thought
• Character hears a noise

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Prominent Foreshadowing

• Telling the reader what will happen
• Might be used in a prologue, preface, or
  throughout a work
• Example I'd never given much thought to how I
  would die though I'd had reason enough in the
  last few months but even if I had, I would not
  have imagined it like this.

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The Monkeys Paw by W.W. Jacobs

• About the author
• 1863-1943
• Grew up listening to tales of adventure from
  sailors near his dockside home
• In adulthood, wrote stories filled with strange
  and fantastic events
• The Monkeys Paw

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Fate

• How does fate shape the events that occur?
• What does The Monkeys Paw say about the role
  of fate in peoples lives?