Foreshadowing vs. Prescient

Foreshadowingnoun

A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.

‘The roses blooming before Rose herself bloomed was excellent foreshadowing.’;

Prescientadjective

Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

Foreshadowingnoun

the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

Prescientadjective

Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

‘Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event.’;

Foreshadowingadjective

indistinctly prophetic

Prescientadjective

perceiving the significance of events before they occur;

‘extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations’;

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and it helps the reader develop expectations about the upcoming events.A writer may implement foreshadowing in many different ways.