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Foreshadowing vs Premonition - What's the difference?

foreshadowing | premonition |

As nouns the difference between foreshadowing and premonition

is that foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in the story while premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

As a verb foreshadowing

is present participle of lang=en.

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.

    • premonition

    English

    (wikipedia premonition)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
  • A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

    • Synonyms

    * bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

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