adumbrate
to give off a faint shadow or slight representation of something. In writing, this is an outline we write out for ourselves to guide the way through a novel, and also the technique of foreshadowing events to come. This is an art - the ability to intimate by overshadowing, to shed light on other things by putting all the distractions in shadow, to draw what's important out into the light. A little meta, no?
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