foreshadows
Signals what's coming
Foreshadows means hints at or suggests something that will happen later.
A storyteller foreshadows events by planting early clues: The dark clouds in chapter one foreshadow the coming tragedy.
Outside narrative, signs can foreshadow outcomes: Rising tensions foreshadowed the eventual collapse of negotiations.
Predicts future events
- foretellsPredicts future events
- augursForetells or predicts
- presagesIndicates in advance
- portendsIndicates what's coming
forecasts · prognosticates · divines · anticipates · foresees · heralds · signals · bodes
Solving aid
- indicationSign of what's coming
- suggestionIdea proposed for consideration
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- intimationIndirect indication of something
foretaste · glimpse · sign · signal · whisper · trace · echo · allusion
prophesies
Predicts future events
portends · forecasts · prognosticates · divines · anticipates · foresees · heralds · signals · bodes · adumbrates
clue
Solving aid
- indicationSign of what's coming
- suggestionIdea proposed for consideration
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
intimation · foretaste · glimpse · sign · signal · whisper · trace · echo · allusion · nuance
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- portentousOminously significant
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
threatening · dire · doom · gloomy · dark · grim · baleful · eerie · chilling · dreadful
prologue
Introductory literary section
- preludeIntroductory piece or event
- setupHow something is arranged
- flashforwardTemporal narrative jump ahead
motif · symbolism · irony · dramatic irony · subplot · parallel · callback · arc · tension · suspense
foreshadowsflashback
Involuntary past memory
recalls · reflects on · echoes · harkens back · callbacks
foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshadowed, foreshadower, foreshadowings