backshadowing

A literary device in which an author shows how an event that already occurred affects the future.

Noun

  1. A literary device in which an author shows how an event that already occurred affects the future.

Forms

backshadowings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of backshadow

Related

foreshadowing sideshadowing

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