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How to pronounce “foreshadowing”
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Pronunciation guide for foreshadowing
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of foreshadowing with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The genesis of Google 22 minutes
and this is a little bit foreshadowing --
- Definition summary
- Synonym of foreshadow (“a suggestion of something in advance”); specifically (usually uncountable, literature, narratology), a literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.
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How to pronounce foreshadowing
Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The genesis of Google 22 minutes

and this is a little bit foreshadowing --
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “foreshadowing”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Synonym of foreshadow (“a suggestion of something in advance”); specifically (usually uncountable, literature, narratology), a literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of foreshadow
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