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CAHSEE ELA 8.4 Literary Devices. How does the use of the word foreshadowing help a reader better understand the plot?

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English Language

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Narrative Analysis / Literary Devices

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We're foreshadowing some foreshadowing for this question...
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How does the use of the word foreshadowing help a reader better understand the plot?
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And here are the potential answers:
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The movie we're watching opens with a shot of a meteor in space... then cut to the White House...
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...and... we know the plot of the whole movie.

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So... what is this question asking?
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It's a vocab question on the word 'foreshadowing' -- and if we didn't know the meaning, we
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could break it up a bit and most likely figure it out.
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Note the first 4 letters -- fore -- like in golf, not the number.
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Ouch.
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Fore is kissin' cousins with BEFORE, and we see it other places... like on a boat.
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Aft...
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...and fore.
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And there's forehead, foreboding, foreground... all things that are "ahead" or "before."
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Okay... next we have shadow...
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...so... it's like we're seeing the shadow of something before it appears...
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So... our answer is pretty clearly A.
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As in, "Armageddon II: The World Ends... Again."
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