foreshadowing

Plural: foreshadowings

Noun

• the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
• A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.

Verb

• indicate by signs
• present participle and gerund of foreshadow

Adjective Satellite

• indistinctly prophetic

Examples

• The roses blooming before Rose herself bloomed was excellent foreshadowing.

Synonyms

adumbration, adumbrative, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefiguration, prefigurative, prefigure, presage, prognosticate

Related Words

backshadowing, sideshadowing

Anagrams of foreshadowing