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CAHSEE ELA 8.1 Literary Devices. What effect is achieved by using a flashback?
CAHSEE ELA 8.2 Literary Devices. Which of the following is a characteristic of a soliloquy?
CAHSEE ELA 8.3 Literary Devices. What is the best way to describe a character foil?
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CAHSEE ELA 8.4 Literary Devices. How does the use of the word foreshadowing help a reader better understand the plot?
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- 00:03
We're foreshadowing some foreshadowing for this question...
- 00:06
How does the use of the word foreshadowing help a reader better understand the plot?
- 00:11
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:17
The movie we're watching opens with a shot of a meteor in space... then cut to the White House...
- 00:22
...and... we know the plot of the whole movie.
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- 00:25
So... what is this question asking?
- 00:27
It's a vocab question on the word 'foreshadowing' -- and if we didn't know the meaning, we
- 00:33
could break it up a bit and most likely figure it out.
- 00:36
Note the first 4 letters -- fore -- like in golf, not the number.
- 00:41
Ouch.
- 00:43
Fore is kissin' cousins with BEFORE, and we see it other places... like on a boat.
- 00:49
Aft...
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...and fore.
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And there's forehead, foreboding, foreground... all things that are "ahead" or "before."
- 00:59
Okay... next we have shadow...
- 01:01
...so... it's like we're seeing the shadow of something before it appears...
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So... our answer is pretty clearly A.
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As in, "Armageddon II: The World Ends... Again."
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