Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1238 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Limits of Foreshadowing Claims
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The idea
Almost any early detail can be read as preparing something later, so the claim is easy to make and hard to support. Require that the detail be conspicuous and that the later event actually match it. An option calling something foreshadowing on a thin resemblance is overreaching.
In practice
Conspicuous, and actually matched.
Where people slip
An easy claim to overreach on.
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