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如何捕捉和回应伏笔
How to capture and echo
foreshadowing
Continuation Writing
Detective Game:
Where is Mr. Dinosaur?
Detective game
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It is a technique used by the author, leaving clues(线索) about what’s going to happen to prepare the reader for a big event.
It is a hint or clue to future events in a storyline.
Foreshadowing(伏笔)
5 Common Types of Foreshadowing
1. Rachel hurried home after work. It was dusk and the sky was quickly clouding over. She wonders aloud whether it’s about to start raining. As she kept walking along the narrow path, distant thunder rumbled. The wind picked up, carrying the fallen leaves into a wild dance. Suddenly, ___________
Setting Foreshadowing 环境伏笔
1. Rachel hurried home after work. It was dusk and the sky was quickly clouding over. She wonders aloud whether it’s about to start raining. As she kept walking along the narrow path, distant thunder rumbled. The wind picked up, carrying the fallen leaves into a wild dance. Suddenly, ___________
Let’s expereiemce them between the lines one by one
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Object Foreshadowing 物件伏笔
2. For a long time, I had been longing for a piano of my own. Whenever I passed the piano shop on the street, I would stop, looking at the beautiful piano standing in the corner of the shop window. One day after school, I went as usual to the shop window to look at the piano. It had gone!
Disappointed, helpless and sad, I returned home. On entering the house, I couldn’t believe my eyes._______________________
Character Foreshadowing 性格伏笔
3. As the new teacher, Ms. Thompson, entered the classroom, her piercing gaze(锐利的目光) and serious expression immediately caught the attention of the students. In fact, rumors(流言) about her strict discipline had long been echoing through the hallways long before her arrival…
One day, during a lesson, Tommy, the class troublemaker, couldn’t resist the urge to crack a joke, disrupting the class with his booming laughter. Ms. Thompson, not missing a beat, calmly approached him. __________________
4. Dad looked at Jack, “Well, in the morning go and take a look. Take the gun and some hay(干草). If they look as if they can survive, give them the hay. If not…” Jack looked serious, and slowly nodded.
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Jack walked around the horses. He frowned at the sight of their miserable conditions—lying on the piles of snow, faint breath coming out of their nose.__________
Dialogue Foreshadowing 对话伏笔
Theme Foreshadowing 主题伏笔
5. I was frightened! To my sadness, I found that two small children had fallen into the hole on the road… I told them that I was going to look for help. I knew the neighbors well, and they all shared a sense of neighborliness(睦邻友好), willing to give a hand.
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These people and their timely help in such a critical moment not only saved the two children but also gave me a deeper insight into__________________ .
neighborliness
Writer Anton Chekhov(契科夫) famously said,
“If in the first act(第一幕) you have hung a pistol(手枪) on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.”
______________________________— Foreshadowing
It is fired.— ______________
A pistol on the wall/Chekhov’s gun
Echoing(呼应)
is one of the best-known ways of foreshadowing。If the author foreshadows sth, he must echo it in the following part. Or the foreshadowing is meaningless.
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Story reading
Foreshadowing
Echoing
Foreshadowing creates a sense of suspense(悬念) and keeps the reader interested
Continuation writing
Echoing the foreshadowing can create a strong sense of coherence(连贯).
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Foreshadowing can take place in any place of a passage in different forms.
How can we capture the one we need to echo in continuation writing?
Foreshadowing is a hint or clue to future events in a storyline.
Plots we are going to write
Something that contributes to our plots in the preceding text(上文)
Definition:
Since foreshadowing is…, when we find out sth…, we find foresh..
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Three steps
to capture and echo foreshadowing
Decide on the bull’s-eye (靶心): What is the plot I am going to write?
2. Find out Chekhov’s gun: What contributes to my plot in the preceding text?
3. Pull the Trigger (扣动扳机): How can I use it to create the plot?
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When I was little, I lived in a house with a beautiful garden full of all kinds of flowers. There was nothing I enjoyed more than sitting in the garden with my mother reading stories to me. When I was old enough to read, I enjoyed reading stories aloud to her.
I would never forget one day when I was in the third grade. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed (排练) my lines so hard with me. But however easily I acted at home, the moment I stepped on stage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside, explaining that she had written a narrator’s (解说员) part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her word, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.
I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home after school that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.
It was May and roses were blossoming and, under the trees, we could also see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass, as if a painter had painted our garden with red, yellow and green. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, pulling it up by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”
“But I like dandelions, “I protested, “All flowers are beautiful—even dandelions.” “Yes, every flower is beautiful in its own way, isn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over.“And that is true of people too,” she added. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.” Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled to me gently.
Paragraph 1: “But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said.________________________________
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Paragraph 2: After the play, I took home the flower.
Passage A
Paragraph 1: “But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said._____ ________________________________________________________
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Paragraph 2: After the play, I took home the flower.
Bull’s-eye:
Chekhov’s gun:
Pull the trigger:
What was the flower? How did I get it?
Setting foreshadowing ________________
Object foreshadowing ________________
Dialogue foreshadowing ________________
Character foreshadowing ________________
Theme foreshadowing ________________
Rose
Dandelion
“All flowers are beautiful—even dandelions.”
Bull’s-eye:
Chekhov’s gun:
Pull the trigger:
What was the flower? How did I get it?
Setting foreshadowing ________________
Object foreshadowing ________________
Dialogue foreshadowing ________________
Character foreshadowing ________________
Theme foreshadowing ________________
Dandelion
On the school play day, I did an excellent job. As our play was to end, a stranger from the audience came to me. They gave me a flower, which was surprisingly, the yellow dandelion.
On the evening of the performance, I suddenly felt nervous backstage again. My teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give you this,” she said, handing me a dandelion. Looking at it, I knew my mother was out there for me, which calmed me down.
“All flowers are beautiful—even dandelions.”
Today was Community Service Day at school. Maya’s class was going to make cards for the seniors living in a nursing home. It was also the first day Maya would be wearing her leg brace (腿支架) to school, which was designed to help her walk more steadily and smoothly.
It was a cold autumn morning. Maya looked down, feeling embarrassed. To make it lovelier, she had delicately decorated the brace with pretty butterfly patterns. Still, she was unsure about others’ reaction. All morning at school, kids kept glancing at her brace. To her relief, they didn’t say anything.
In the classroom, Maya was drawing little green buds (芽) and pretty flowers when her friend Samir came over and sat by her. She felt his eyes fixed on her brace and heard him asking, “What’s that for?” Not knowing what to say, Maya pretended she didn’t hear him. After a few seconds of awkwardness, she glanced back at him, and found that he looked a little sad.
After lunch, the class set off. The nursing home was on a small hill and all of them walked there happily along the path. Maya found that the brace did make it easier for her to walk up.
Maya and Samir were paired up with a lady who was 83 years old. There at the end of the hall in a wheelchair, with a big smile on her face, sat the lady, wearing a pink coat, with red lipstick and beautiful earrings. She looked bright and full of life. Moving flexibly and fast towards Maya and Samir, she greeted first. “I’m Joan,” she said cheerfully, “Glad to meet you.”
Maya and Samir handed her the cards they made. Joan looked at Samir’s card carefully and spoke with admiration, “You’ve written a poem! That’s so artistic!” Samir’s face reddened with shyness. Then Joan turned to Maya’s picture. “The first flowers of spring!” she cried in delight. “You really have a gift for using colour!” she said. Clearly, Joan’s praise added great power into Maya.
Paragraph 1: In a sudden wave of bravery, Maya asked, “What’ s it like being in a wheelchair?” _________________________________________________
Passage B
Paragraph 1: In a sudden wave of bravery, Maya asked, “What’s it like being in a wheelchair?” _______________________________
Bull’s-eye: __________________________________________
Chekhov’s gun:
Pull the trigger:
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How did Joan reply?
Setting foreshadowing ________________
Object foreshadowing ________________
Dialogue foreshadowing ________________
Character foreshadowing ________________
Theme foreshadowing ________________
She is optimistic.
(Describe Joan’s reply based on her character.)
“It helps me get around,” Joan said simply. Then, grinning, she added, “You’d be surprised at how fast I can go in this thing!” Right then, she moved the wheelchair across the room, turning around, back and forth.
It was Christmas Day. Pappy was working alone fixing an old lantern in the backroom when he heard the ringing of his bell on the shop door. The bell, which produced a uniquely pleasant sound, had been in Pappy’s family for over a hundred years. He valued it dearly and enjoyed sharing its song with all who came to his shop. Although the bell hung on the inside of the main door, Pappy had tied a wire to the screen door so that it would ring whether the inner door was open or not. Hearing the bell, he left the backroom to greet his customer.
“And how can I help you, little lady?” Pappy’s voice was joyful.
“Hello, sir.” The little girl spoke almost in a whisper. She looked at Pappy with her big brown eyes, and then slowly scanned the room in search of something special. Shyly she told him, “I’d like to buy a present, sir.”
“Well, let’s see,” Pappy said, “who is this present for?”
“My grandpa. It’s for my grandpa. But I don’t know what to get.”
Pappy began to make suggestions. “How about a pocket watch? It’s in good condition.” The little girl didn’t answer. She had walked to the doorway and put her small hand on the door. She shook the door gently to ring the bell. Pappy’s face seemed to glow as he saw her smiling with excitement.
“This is just right,” the little girl said. “Momma says grandpa loves music.”
Just then, Pappy’s expression changed. Fearful of breaking the little girl’s heart, he told her, “I’m sorry, Missy. That’s not for sale. Maybe your grandpa would like this little radio.”
The girl looked at the radio, bowed her head, and sadly sighed, “No, I don’t think so.”
In an effort to help her understand, Pappy told her that the bell had been his only companion, for the rest of his family were all gone now, except for his estranged(疏远的) daughter whom he had not seen for nearly a decade.
Paragraph 1: With a giant tear in her eye, the little girl looked up at him. _____________________________
Paragraph 2: Later that evening when Pappy was closing up the shop, he heard a familiar ringing._________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Passage C
Complete the second paragraph by capturing and echoing the foreshadowing in the preceding text.
Paragraph 1: With a giant tear in her eye, the little girl looked up at him. She managed a forced smile, murmuring, “Thank you, anyway.” and turned toward the doorway. Suddenly Pappy thought of his estranged daughter. Feeling a lump in his throat, Pappy called out, “How much have you got to spend, Missy?” At this, the little girl emptied her purse onto the counter—two dollars. After a quick struggle in his mind, Pappy said, “Today is Christmas Day and this is your lucky day. The bell costs exactly two dollars.” Holding the special bell close to her chest, the child danced out.
Paragraph 2: Later that evening when Pappy was closing up the shop, he heard a familiar ringing. _____________________________________________________
He couldn’t believe his ears! There in the doorway stood the little girl, ringing the bell and smiling sweetly. Puzzled, Pappy approached her. “Have you changed your mind, little lady?” “No,” the child grinned, “Mum says the present is for you.” Before Pappy had time to say another word, the child’s mother stepped in. Holding back her tears, she gently said, “Hello, Dad.”
Three steps
to capture and echo foreshadowing
Decide on the bull’s-eye (靶心): What is the plot I am going to write?
2. Find out Chekhov’s gun: What contributes to my plot in the preceding text?
3. Pull theTrigger: How can I use it to create the plot?
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