Read the excerpt from “The Monkey's Paw.”
"Twenty-one years of it," said Mr. White, nodding at his wife and son. "When he went away he was a slip of a youth in the warehouse. Now look at him."
"He don't look to have taken much harm," said Mrs. White, politely.
"I'd like to go to India myself," said the old man, "just to look round a bit, you know."
"Better where you are," said the sergeant-major, shaking his head. He put down the empty glass, and sighing softly, shook it again.
"I should like to see those old temples and fakirs and jugglers," said the old man. "What was that you started telling me the other day about a monkey's paw or something, Morris?"
"Nothing," said the soldier, hastily. "Leastways nothing worth hearing."

Which quotation shows foreshadowing?

“When he went away he was a slip of a youth in the warehouse.”
“. . . just to look around a bit, you know.”
“I should like to see those old temples and fakirs and jugglers.”
“Nothing. . . . Leastways nothing worth hearing.”

To figure out how this is showing foreshadowing, we must first know what foreshadowing is. Foreshadowing is a method an author can use to indirectly hint about what will come later in the story. From experience reading, one can know that when a character is holding back information, there is often some foreshadowing at play. Since here the soldier seems to want to tell the old man more, but doesn't, that is a work of foreshadowing.

jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2021-10-19T13:15:02+02:00

The quotation from the excerpt that shows foreshadowing is:

D. “Nothing. . . . Leastways nothing worth hearing.”

Foreshadowing is a literary technique that is used to make predictions about future events in a given story by giving clues.

According to the given excerpt, we can see that there is an interaction between Mr White, the sergeant major and Mrs White where the sergeant asks Mr. White about the monkey paw and he replies that it is not worth hearing.

This foreshadows the fact that the monkey paw would in fact become critical to their investigation.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D