Suspense

Suspense

What is it?

Suspense

is the feeling when it is waiting to find out the outcome of an event. The moment when you are on the edge of your seat

Multiple Choice

What technique from this passage of “The Black Ferris” by Ray Bradbury is used to create suspense?

“The carnival had come to town like an October wind, like a dark bat flying over a cold lake, bones rattling in the night, mourning sighing, whispering up the tents in the dark rain.

Peter and Henry ran to the lonely carnival grounds. The Midway was silent. The grey tents hissed in the wind like giant prehistoric wings. At eight o’clock perhaps, ghastly lights would flash on, voiced would shout, music would go out over the lake.”

• Setting

• Tone/Mood

• Foreshadowing