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Read the excerpt from "The Scarlet Ibis."

1. It's strange that all this is still so clear to me, now that the summer has long since fled and time has had its way.
2. A grindstone stands where the bleeding tree stood, just outside the kitchen door, and now if an oriole sings in the elm, its song seems to die up in the leaves, a silvery dust.
3. The flower garden is prim, the house a gleaming white, and the pale



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Foreshadowing in 'The Scarlet Ibis' reveals the absence of Doodle in the narrator's life.


Explanation:

Foreshadowing in literature is a literary device where an author hints at certain plot developments that will unfold later in the story. In the excerpt from 'The Scarlet Ibis,' sentence 4 foreshadows that Doodle is no longer present in the narrator's life. The mention of remembering Doodle when the grindstone turns implies a sense of loss or absence.


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