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    [Verb]  | "fore*shad*ow" | \ fȯr-ˈsha-(ˌ)dō \


    1: to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure


    Origin: 1577 ;

    [Verb]  | "foreshadow" 


    1: to give a slight indication of beforehand;


      * e.g., " ... a series of small tremors that foreshadowed the massive earthquake the next day "



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     [ "foreshadow" ]

    1: to predict wats gonna happen fool

      * e.g.,  ... that fool is foreshadowing 

     [ "foreshadowing" ]

    1: Foreshadowing is a dramatic device in which an important plot point is mentioned earlier in the story to return later in a sinificant way. This is said by Hermione Granger in A Very Potter Musical.

      * e.g.,  ... Snape: A person can however be a horcrux. 

     [ "foreshadowing" ]

    1: an indication that something is about to happen

      * e.g.,  ... EDP445: I scared a 7 year old girl 

     [ "Foreshadowing" ]

    1: Procrastination.

      * e.g.,  ... Mentioning a gun at the beginning of the story and not shooting the gun until the stroy's end is not foreshadowing, it's fucking procrastination. 

     [ "The Foreshadower" ]

    1: The fart that is typically pushed out in a hurry, only to discover that there is feces close behind.

      * e.g.,  ... guy: well guys i'm going to be heading home, just had a close call with the foreshadower and i'd like to avoid any mishaps. 

     [ "FORESHADOWING" ]

    1: A TYPE OF WRITING

      * e.g.,  ... PAM MUNOZ RYAN WILL USE FORESHADOWING IN HER TEXT 

     [ "Hussian Foreshadowing" ]

    1: Hussian Foreshadowing is like a Chekhov's gun, yet more extreme

      * e.g.,  ... In Homestuck, a brand of cake mix one of the main characters dislikes becomes a interdimensional empire in an alternate universe, Hussian Foreshadowing at its finest. 


     [ "Hussian Foreshadowing" ]

    2: The use of a minor detail or menial phrase to create a major plot development later on.


     [ "Hussian Foreshadowing" ]

    3: named after the creator of MSPA, Andrew Hussie, who uses this many times in his work

     [ "Foreshadowing episode one" ]

    1: A twisted cousin of foreshadowing and preshadowing but closer to foreshadowing Foreshadowing episode one occurs specifically with a flashback of events before a story set by a character later in the story, more so in a TV show or a movie, that contains subtle hints to events already shown at an early point of the story, set later than the events of the flashback. As the flashback is set further in the past, the subtle hints count as a foreshadowing

      * e.g.,  ... The killer’s father in episode 5 recalls the killer’s childhood. The killer is shown as a child playing with a toy gun. This is foreshadowing episode one where the killer murders someone as an adult 

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