`You are the curse, the corruption of the land!’. With these words, Tiresias, a blind prophet in `Oedipus The King’ set the actions in play that would turn king to beggar within the day. Prophecy and foreshadowing are an important part of playwriting and adds an element of suspense that is not possible any other…
Throughout life there are situations which arise that seem to have been hinted earlier. You might not have noticed the hint when it first appeared, but suddenly at one point it finally dawns on you. The same goes for the literary aspect of foreshadowing. The novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy has many instances where…
Foreshadowing: clues in a story that hint about what is going to happen later in the plot -used to arouse the reader’s curiosity, to build suspense, and to help prepare the reader to accept events that occur later in the story Point of View: the perspective from which a story is told. There are three…
Allegory: Hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex: Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. Analogy: Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from…