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A Short Summary On Foreshadowing

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Foreshadowing is used to make the reader feel suspense. Foreshadowing often gives the reader this feeling of curiousness or uneasiness by giving hints of an event that has happened or is going to happen but, never tell specifically what that event is. For instance, if the text states “As we flew to the scene in our helicopters, we could already see collapsed buildings and shattered windows. We could already tell that this would not be an easy day for the Red Cross.”, then I can infer that a natural disaster happened based on the fact that buildings were collapsed and windows were shattered. That sentence made the writing much better than just stating “After the disaster we flew in to see the damages”, this doesn’t make the reader sit at
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