A sign, a saying or an image that anticipates, sometimes only for the rereader, something that will happen later in the work.
In The Red and the Black
With his head resting on his hands, Julien felt happier in the grotto than he had ever been in his whole life, stirred by daydreams and the joy of freedom.
Julien says he felt "happier in the grotto" than ever, and the reader, looking back, sees a foretaste of the solitary happiness without an audience that he will only find again in prison.
Book I, Chapter 12: A journey, the narrator
For a poor devil like me, thought Julien, without godfathers and without money, there must not be much difference between the seminary and the prison.
Book I, Chapter 24: A capital, Julien Sorel (in thought)
your companions will never look at you without hating you; if they pretend to love you, it is only to betray you the better.
Book I, Chapter 29: The first promotion, Abbé Pirard
The ancestor was at court and had the honor of having his head cut off at the Place de Grève, on April 26, 1574, because of a political intrigue. You are the son of a carpenter from Verrières and, what is more, in the service of his father.
Book II, Chapter 1: The pleasures of the country, Abbé Pirard
Only the sentence of death honors a man [...], it is the only thing that cannot be bought.
Book II, Chapter 8: Which decoration is the most honorable, Mathilde de La Mole (in thought)
You and I, at this dinner, will be the only ones without a stain of blood, but I will be despised and almost hated as a bloodthirsty Jacobin monster, and you, despised simply as a man of the people, an intruder in good society.
Book II, Chapter 9: The ball, Count Altamira
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