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# Foreshadowing
- URL: https://www.wonderousworldsofwords.com/foreshadowing/
- Published: 2026-10-10T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T09:59:59.000Z
- Description: A hint, early on, of what is coming.
- Author: Tyler Bussell
- Tags: Word of the Day

Noun

What it means:

Foreshadowing is a hint or clue planted early in a story about something that will happen later. Done well, readers feel it without quite noticing it.

The cracked teacup in chapter one was *foreshadowing*; by chapter twenty the whole house had come apart.