Foreshadowing

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Foreshadowing

• How do I identify foreshadowing within a text?

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LITERARY ELEMENTS
Key Learning Writers use the elements of
fiction- plot, conflict, flashback,
foreshadowing, setting, and theme- to create a
story. 701.3.2, 701.7.6, 701.8.5, 701.8.7,
701.8.9, 701.8.11
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Unit Essential Question How does an author use
the elements of fiction to create a story?
Concept Plot
Concept Theme
Concept Flashback and Foreshadowing

• Lesson Essential
• How do I distinguish among the 5 basic elements
  of plot and place them on a plot diagram?
• How do I identify the four main types of conflict
  in a literary plot and in non-print media?
• What aspects of the story should be considered
  when determining the setting of a story?
• What clues help a reader identifiy the setting of
  a story?

• Lesson Essential Questions
• How do I identify flashback in a passage or
  story?
• How do I identify foreshadowing in a passage or
  story?

• Lesson Essential Questions
• How do I recognize implied and stated theme?

Vocabulary Exposition ,Rising Action, Climax,
Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement,
Complication, Conflict, Setting
Vocabulary Flashback Foreshadowing
Vocabulary Implied Theme Stated Theme
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Foreshadowing Activator

• Listen to these sound clips
• What does this one make you think of?
• What about this one?

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What is Foreshadowing?

• Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an
  author drops subtle hints about plot developments
  to come later in the story.
• You can think of foreshadowing as a way of giving
  the reader a chance to make a predication about
  what might happen next in the story.

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What is Foreshadowing?

• Writers use a variety of techniques to give the
  reader/watcher hints as to what is to come
• Movies and TV Shows music
• Stories words that give away emotions (anxious,
  nervous, excited, etc)
• Be on the look out for subtle hints of
  foreshadowing.

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Example of Foreshadowing

• "NOW, my dears," said old Mrs. Rabbit one
  morning, "you may go into the fields or down the
  lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden
  your Father had an accident there he was put in
  a pie by Mrs. McGregor."
• Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  

What do you think might happen next?
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Example of Foreshadowing

• Sam wished he could rid himself of the sick
  feeling in his gut that told him something
  terrible was going to happen, and happen soon.

What do you think might happen next?
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Foreshadowing Activity
Handout
Event
Clue It Would Happen
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Event
Clue It Would Happen
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Clue It Would Happen
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Clue It Would Happen
Event
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Power Question 1

• 1. Sarah closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
  It was exactly a year ago today that she stood
  in this very same spot, trying to do the very
  same thing. How could I be doing this? Sarah
  thought to herself. She took a deep breath and
  recalled that embarrassing and humiliating time.
• She had sung on stage a million times, but, for
  some reason, that night was different. As she
  gazed out in the into the crowd, she saw them.
  They never came, yet there they were. Sarahs
  breath had quickened and her heart began to beat
  a mile a minute. I cant do this, she mumbled
  as she fled the stage.
• And now, exactly a year later, Sarah stood,
  ready to head out on stage. She hoped she was
  ready.

A. Foreshadowing B. Exposition C. Flashback D.
Dénouement
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Power Question 2

• 2. Robinson Crusoe (paraphrased excerpt)
• Daniel Defoe
• Being the third son of the family, and not bred
  to any trade, my head began to be filled very
  early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was
  very ancient, had given me a competent share of
  learning, as far as house education a country
  free school generally go, and designed me for the
  law, but I would be satisfied with nothing but
  going out to sea. My inclination to this led me
  so strongly against the will, nay, the commands,
  of my father, and against all the entreaties and
  persuasions of my mother and other friends, that
  there seemed to be something fatal in that
  propension of nature tending directly to the life
  of misery which was to befall me.
• The author uses the reaction of Robinson Crusoes
  family and friends to give the reader hints of
  what may happen in the story.
• This is known as ________________.
• Exposition
• Flashback
• Exaggeration
• Foreshadowing

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Power Question 3

• 3. The dark storm clouds rolled across the lake
  and Rebecca couldnt help but shiver. The
  ominous feeling the black clouds gave her made
  her pull her wool coat closely around her. She
  started walking faster and faster, hoping that
  whatever was coming would pass quickly and
  wouldnt hurt too badly.
• This is an example of
• Foreshadowing
• Exposition
• Flashback
• Dénouement

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Answers to Power Questions

1. C. Flashback
2. D. Foreshadowing
3. A. Foreshadowing

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Foreshadowing Summarizer

• Ticket Out the Door
• Write a Dear Absent Student Letter
• Start the letter with Dear Absent Student, and
  explain in detail what we learned in class today.

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