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Flashback vs Foreshadow - What's the difference?

flashback | foreshadow |

As a noun flashback

is flashback.

As a verb foreshadow is

to presage, or suggest something in advance.

flashback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative
  • (psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs
  • a similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug
  • the condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system

    • Synonyms

    * (dramatic device) analepsis

    Coordinate terms

    * (act of remembering) reminiscence

    Derived terms

    * (flame) flashback arrestor

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    See also

    * flashforward

    Anagrams

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    foreshadow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To presage, or suggest something in advance.
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
    • It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.