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Alright y’all, I want your best tips on foreshadowing. What are some of the main ways or techniques that you use? What is your overall advice? I would love to see an example from some of your writing of how you foreshadowed something.

The five main ways I found through my research how foreshadowing are:

• <b>Name Drop: </b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Use a name of a group, person, or some other entity in a ways that seems to point towards it coming into play later on</span>
• <b>Prologue and Prophecy:</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> This is a direct way of foreshadowing a future scene through a prologue or actual prophecy</span>
• <b>Innocuous Statement: </b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>A statement or phrase (especially said by a character) that seems to have a meaning or mysterious feel but the readers can’t know what it means, and it comes into play later</span>
• <b>Symbolism:</b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> Use of some physical object or natural event that interacts with the character in some way or is noticed by the character to foreshadow something a human related event in the future</span>
• <b>Object: </b><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>A character comes across is attains some object in a seemingly purposeless way, but that object is used later on in the story</span>

What are y’all’s thoughts on these five ways? Do you ever use them? If you have, do you have an example you could share?

I’m looking forward to seeing y’all’s thoughts! 🙂