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Foreshadowing vs Foretelling - What's the difference?

foreshadowing | foretelling |

As verbs the difference between foreshadowing and foretelling

is that foreshadowing is present participle of lang=en while foretelling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between foreshadowing and foretelling

is that foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story while foretelling is prediction.

foreshadowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia foreshadowing) (en noun)
  • A literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story.

    • foretelling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • prediction