foreshadowing's Usage Examples:

It is similar to foreshadowing, in which future events are not shown but rather implicitly hinted at.

shocking them before Ted reveals, to their relief, that he is joking (thus foreshadowing his wife's real name to the audience based on his kids' shocked reactions).

It was the first postseason intersectional contest, foreshadowing the modern bowl game.

The GOP made inroads into the South and among blue collar workers, foreshadowing Nixon's Southern strategy and the rise of Reagan Democrats, respectively.

features of literature and include figurative language, irony, and foreshadowing.

swept the Northern states while Breckinridge carried much of the South, foreshadowing the political alignment of the country throughout the Third Party System.

detailing the events that led Kull to be exiled by his tribe, as well as foreshadowing Kull's future as a great king through the use of a prophetic dream.

the finals performed particularly poorly in the Home Championship, foreshadowing their performance in Argentina a few months later.

to establish mood (as the blood motif in Shakespeare's Macbeth), for foreshadowing (as when Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, mentions the moon almost every.

Messanians during a festival at the temple of Artemis Limnatis, an event foreshadowing the First Messenian War.

The Christ Child holds a fruit, symbolising Original Sin and foreshadowing his Passion.

the interpretation of some figures and events in the Old Testament as foreshadowing the New Testament Typology (urban planning and architecture), the classification.

considered a precursor to The War of the Worlds, though there is no clear foreshadowing of the events that transpire in the novel.

Synonyms:

prediction; prefiguration; prevision; adumbration; anticipation;

Antonyms:

unpredictive; nonprognosticative; incapacity; unprophetic;