This question is missing the answer choices. They are the following:
A. Mood
B. Foreshadowing
C. Setting
D. Tone
The nightmare in which King Arthur falls into the water and then a pit of snakes and monsters attacks him is an example of:
B. Foreshadowing.
- In "Le Mort d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Mallory, King Arthur has a frightening dream. He sees himself falling into "hideous deep black water."
- In the sequence, snakes and other beasts begin to tear his flesh.
- This nightmare is an example of foreshadowing.
What is foreshadowing?
- It is a literary technique in which a piece of information that initially seems irrelevant is later developed into something important.
- The dream may not seem important to readers at first, until they realize it has a connection with an event that takes place later in the story.
What does this foreshadowing reveal?
- The foreshadowing used in the story reveals that Arthur will die in battle, stabbed.
- The tearing of his flesh by the beasts represents his being stabbed by his enemy.
- Therefore, the nightmare is a clear example of foreshadowing in the story.
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