English Explanatory Dictionary

backshadowing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A literary device in which an author shows how an event that already occurred affects the future.

verb

present participle and gerund of backshadow

Word forms

backshadowing backshadowings

Related words

foreshadowing sideshadowing

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