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Owl Creek Bridge Foreshadowing
Being faced with death is a tragic event that will make most people recall and reflect on what is most essential in one's life. Symbolism, in this story, was used to create a sense of foreshadowing and suspense. Ambrose Bierce, the novelist of this story, used numerous examples of literary techniques to generate a foreshadowing of a shock effect in the account of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." One of the main techniques Bierce used was symbolism. He also used irony, allusion, imagery, and realism. Together, these built a foreshadowing/shock effect-literary technique.

Symbolism was primarily derived from the main character, Peyton Farquhar, a thirty-five-year-old Southern plantation owner. However, in the piece, the bridge was one

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