Literary Device - Foreshadowing

Have you ever read an exciting story or watch a movie that has kept you in suspense to the very end?

What causes the stories you have read or seen to holds your interest?

Come with me on this journey of discovery, where we will explore one main concept of literature that:

• help to grasp the reader's interest,
• predicts future event mentioned earlier in the story using symbols etc.  
• highlights a pre-scene showing something that will reoccur...e.g. A gun is a sign of upcoming events. 
• heightened individual concerns ..............
  

These and other attributes are associated with a specific literary device that you will learn more about in the following chapters.