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Foreshadowing

for-SHA-doh-ing

/ˈfɔːrˌʃædoʊɪŋ/

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foreshadowing

A literary technique where an author provides early clues or hints about events that will occur later in the narrative

The recurring motif of the broken clock was foreshadowing the protagonist's fate in the novel's final act.

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