Examples Of Foreshadowing In Aunt Gertrude

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In paragraph 2 the author uses foreshadowing when it said "I had seen Aunt Gertrude more in the past two years than I had ever before in my life, and she could be terrifying, often wearing a mean scowl on her deeply lined face." It makes the reader think that aunt Gertrude is mean and doesn't care about her

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