Horror and Suspense Vocab and techniques

which of the following words is a synonym for "run away"

• flee
• awful
• stagger
• agony

Complete the sentence with the correct vocabulary word: "A feeling of ___________ settled over Robert when he heard noises in the empty house."

• dread
• starvation
• awful
• thrust

Complete the sentence with the correct vocabulary word: "The narrator woke up in __________ not knowing where it was or what it will happen to him"

• thrust
• agony
• fearful
• rag

If you spend days without eating anything, you will die of ________________

• fearful
• rag
• starvation
• dread

which of the following words mean "to tremble with a sudden movement, as from horror"?

• shudder
• dungeon
• flee
• agony

Complete the sentence with the correct vocabulary word: The narrator placed a (a)   , or piece of cloth, on the floor in order to find out how big the room was.

Choose the right vocabulary word to complete the sentence about the setting of the story: The walls of the room were ____________ and cold.

• damp
• flee
• dungeon
• staggered

Choose the vocabulary word that means: to push forcefully

• thrust
• stagger
• shudder
• trust

Choose the vocabulary word that means: to (cause to) walk, move unsteadily. As in the following example: "He __________ from the force of the wind."

• thrust
• staggered
• dread
• flee

Which of the following could be considered the setting in the story "The Pit and the Pendulum".

• rag
• dungeon
• awful
• agony