Which of the excerpts below is an example of foreshadowing? a. how remarkably well you are looking to-day. but i have received a pipe of what passes for amontillado… b. "i have my doubts," i replied; "and i was silly enough to pay the full amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. c. there were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time. i had told them that i should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. d. i broke and reached him a flagon of de grave. he emptied it at a breath. his eyes flashed with a fierce light. he laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation i did not understand.

A. How remarkably well you are looking to-day. But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado…

Explanation:

Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by the authors to give the reader a clue as to what might happen in the future. Foreshadowing is not considered a spoiler, but rather a hint about something. The spoiler tells literally what will happen in the story, while foreshadowing gives only a hint of what will happen so that the reader becomes curious and increasingly interested in the text they are reading. An example of foreshadowing is present in letter A of the above question, where the speaker gives a hint that what happened in Amontilado is not a good thing.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human