Mystery Terms

Collecting the facts and drawing a possible conclusion

• breakthrough

• deduction

• lead

• suspect

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

Person who has personal knowledge about a crime

• Clue

• Motive

• Red herring

• Witness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A thing or statement that helps to prove who committed the crime

• Evidence

• Mystery

• Victim

• Suspect

A plea offered by an accused person of not having been at the scene of a crime

• Planted

• Alibi

• Evidence

• Lead

Final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; often a gathering of characters to go over the solution to a crime in a mystery

• Breakthrough

• Suspense

• Melodrama

• Denouement

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

The prevailing emotional tone or general attitude

• suspense

• melodrama

• mood

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An investigator or detective

• sleuth

• victim

• witness

• suspect

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation

• red herring

• hunch

• suspense

• melodrama

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Something that is unknown

• breakthrough

• mystery

• clue

• lead

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative

• breakthrough

• planted

• mood

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5