[tomwed]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

How to Foreshadow Like Alfred Hitchcock

The word is probably "foreshadowing".

that's not it---it's something like mcmuffin

i got it. it's a maguffin. like a time bomb in a cuckoo clock that never goes off.

i no longer get worried if i forget a word. i can usually pull it up later