Question

The following excerpt from chapter 6 of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights features Nelly’s description of Hindley’s wife, Frances. Which literary technique is evident in the mention of Frances’s quick breathing and troublesome cough?

a. personification
b. foreshadowing
c. allusion
d. extended metaphor

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter b. foreshadowing. In the excerpt from chapter 6 of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights features Nelly’s description of Hindley’s wife, Frances, the literary technique that is evident in the mention of Frances’s quick breathing and troublesome cough is foreshadowing.