A sign, saying, or image that anticipates something that will happen later in the work, sometimes only for those who reread.
In Quincas Borba
wait, I will still make you empress
The promise "I will still make you empress," said in a gallant tone, foreshadows the delirium in which Rubião will take himself for emperor and give the crown to the woman he loves, which only the reader understands later.
Chapters CXIX to CXXXII: Marriage, Rupture, and the Offended Major, Rubião
answering him in Portuguese, he thought he was speaking French
Chapters CXXXIII to CXLVII: Dinner Guests, Tijuca, and the Imperial Beard, the narrator
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