Using Literary Devices In The Sixth Sense

Foreshadowing is used here because you get a little bit of an idea of what is going to happen in the woods and of a plot involving Tomasso.

Sergeant Major Morris warns the White family of their dreadful fate, however they do not listen and it makes the story even more suspenseful for readers. The first example of foreshadowing is when Sergeant

Foreshadowing plays a huge role in this novel. Without it would be mere coincidence on the events that happen to Owen Meany. A prime example on this is when Owen is at the Tabitha Wheelwright’s wedding. Simon makes a remark on what Owen is wearing, saying “You look like you’re at a funeral,

In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, the reader immediately knows that the house will be disrupted when Bradbury says, “Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace”(2). Bradbury foreshadows that the house’s peace will be broken, by using the phrase “until this day”, making the reader anticipate the loss of the house’s serenity. A suspenseful mood is created when Bradbury hints that the house will be bothered, the reader enters a suspenseful mood because they now know that the house will not be peaceful for long. In Bradbury’s other story, “The Pedestrian”, Mead stumbles over an uneven sidewalk where the, “cement was vanishing under flowers and grass”(1). The narrator adds on that, “In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time”(1). Mead has not seen another person on the street because they are all inside their houses watching television rather than spending time with their families. When Bradbury says that the cement is “vanishing under flowers and grass”, it foreshadows that soon this futuristic society will be taken over by nature. Foreshadowing creates an effective story because it reveals the theme that even though people can be overpowered by technology, nature can find a way to come through. Bradbury uses foreshadowing to create suspenseful

In the story “The Hitchhiker,” Lucille Fletcher uses foreshadowing to build a mood. The mood of it would be discovering. In the story the Hitchhiker Fletcher used foreshadowing to show how Adams felt about the hitchhiker here are some examples. In the story it said “Personally, I’ve never met anybody who didn’t like a good ghost story.”( Fletcher 1) This shows that she is foreshadowing that the story is going to be about a ghost. For another example from the story “ Oh, it isn't that. It’s-it’s just the trip. Ronald, I wish you weren’t driving.”( Fletcher 2) This shows that something bad is going to happen because his mom does not want him to

Foreshadowing can be talked about for a paragraph, or it will be mentioned in a sentence that can be easily missed.

One example is when Sergeant Major Morris is chatting with the Whites, Morris says “If you keep it, don’t blame me for what happens” (Jacobs, 91). This is suspenseful and foreshadowing seeing something bad will happen and a reader does not quite know what. Herbert says after Mr. White makes the wish, “Well I don’t see the money...and I bet I never shall” (Jacobs, 134). This is foreshadowing Herbert’s death. This is suspenseful seeing Herbert says this as a joke, but later in the story when Herbert dies it seems more sinister. Lastly when Morris is telling the Whites about the paw he says the first person who had the paw on their third wish wished for death. This is foreshadowing and suspense seeing how whatever the first person’s two wishes were they had to very consequential if his last wish was for death. These examples state how suspense is created through

Foreshadowing is a vital ingredient to any suspenseful story. It hints at the idea that something is off-kilter, without ever revealing exactly what that something is. This leaves readers with an uneasy feeling about the plot, but they can’t quite figure out why. Because of that suspicious feeling, readers are left with a burning desire to find out what happens on the next page. Foreshadowing can be achieved many different ways, such as through eree names, unpleasant conversations, and odd occurrences.

Foreshadowing is another main element. One example appears when the grandmother is talking to Bailey stating that she would not take her kids anywhere that there is such a deranged killer on the loose (O 'Connor 276). Later as the grandmother is talking to John Wesley, she asks what he would do if he ever did run into the Misfit. He replies, ‘I’d smack his face” (O’Connor 277). As the family is riding, they see a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it “like a small island” (O’Connor 278). This simile represents a sense of foretold death.

In the novel “How to Read Literature like a Professor” the author, Thomas Foster, analyzed and broke down many literary techniques and reoccurring themes in literature. One of the most widely used literary techniques as shown in the novel was Symbolism. Symbolism is heavily used in literature from precipitation and weather to politics, almost everything we read in literature is a form of symbolism.

symbolism and foreshadowing are both used to clue the reader into the eventual fate of the

Another example of foreshadowing is when the painter lets his paintbrush fall down to the drop cloths after Wehling killed Dr. Hitz and Leora Duncan. The painter says that he is done painting and has had enough of the Happy Garden of Life, which is the mural he was painting and what was referred to as the characters’ perfect world. When the painter says he is done with the Happy Garden of Life it foretells the readers his next decisions. Those next decisions are him picking up the pistol, really intending on killing himself but he didn’t have the nerve, and instead calling the number; 2BRO2B. After calling this number a nice woman, just like Leora Duncan, picked up the phone and said “Federal Bureau of Termination” which shows us that he was planning on ending his life because he was done living the life he had been living. The painter then said that he would like to get an appointment as soon as

The first example of foreshadowing is when Doodle buries the scarlet ibis in the petunia bed. “He took out a piece of string from his pocket and, without touching the ibis, looped one end around its neck. . . he carried the bird around to the front yard and dug a hole in the flower garden”(Hurst 423). This is foreshadowing that Doodle is going to die in the story later, and is going to be bleeding red because the scarlet ibis is red. The next example of foreshadowing is when Doodles dad asks Mr. Heath to build a coffin to his size dimensions. “Daddy had Mr. Heath, build a little mahogany coffin for him”(Hurst 416). It foreshadows by saying that Doodle is going to die in the story but the characters don’t know when. These are a few foreshadowing examples in the story “The Scarlet

Throughout the movie, “The Sixth Sense” director M. Night Shyamala utilizes foreshadowing to hint to the viewers what will happen next throughout the film. Foreshadowing was used as a valuable tool more than just once throughout the motion picture. For example, in the beginning Vincent Grey breaks into Dr. Malcolm Crowe’s home. Vincent Grey was a former patient of Crowe’s. Throughout this emotional scene Vincent tells him that he had failed him and then Vincent shoots Crowe and himself. Dr. Crowe gets shot in the kidney. That would be a fatal wound to anyone. Although the audience doesn’t know that, because that was only a flashback. The movie then moves to the next fall and it appears that Crowe is alive. This example indicates that Dr. Crowe is a ghost himself. Another instance of foreshadowing is Cole Sear is the only person to speak to Dr.Crowe throughout the film. Even though Dr. Crowe speaks and tries to communicate with other people, no one speaks back. Dr. Crowe only sees what he wants to see. This is also an indication Dr. Crowe is dead. As the film went on one may notice that Dr. Crowe only wore an undershirt, a shirt over it and a coat. And he switches all the time, but he never wears anything besides that.Living people usually change their clothes. Another foreshadow is in the beginning, when Cole speaks to Dr. Crowe in the church he spoke in

To begin, foreshadowing is one of many literary elements Dahl efficiently demonstrates through his writing to gradually develop suspense, throughout the story. To illustrate, Dahl revealed foreshadowing through his writing techniques when, the protagonist, Billy Weaver, arrived at the bed and breakfast, he described the sign like “. . . a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk . . .” (172). Dahl builds anticipation for the reader by using the simile which collates the sign of the bed and breakfast to a large black eye giving the reader a clue of how the signboard shows an impression of horror; therefore, the boardinghouse may consist of danger that can harm Billy because of its ghastly signs. To the reader, it almost seems as if Billy is being hypnotized by the sign, telling him to stay at the bed and breakfast. One can draw the conclusion that something grim may occur following his stay at the bed and breakfast. This illustration of foreshadowing keeps one wondering what may occur in the future, which may create anticipation for the reader. Furthermore, during the rising action, of the tale, the antagonist, the landlady peculiarly stated, “‘It’s all ready for you, my dear...” (Dahl 173). By emphasizing the word “all” when the landlady speaks to Billy