Suspense Quiz

What is suspense?

What is the primary goal of suspenseful writing?

• To inform the reader on a topic
• To raise questions in the reader's mind
• To describe events that are tense

Dilemmas usually refer to internal conflict.

• True
• False

When an author uses sensory details, it helps put the reader in the story.

• True
• False

Sensory details are also known as personification.

• True
• False

Foreshadowing is when an author provides background information about past events.

• True
• False

Authors will often use very short sentences to create images in our mind.

• True
• False

A red herring is a false clue, but it is believable.

• True
• False

In R.L. Stine’s spooky The Ghost Next Door, Danny thinks Hannah Fairchild rescued him from the burning house. Later, he learns that Hannah died several years before. This is an example of...

• Sensory Details
• Foreshadowing
• Cliffhanger

In the science fiction action movie Divergent, the protagonist Tris has to choose which of her society’s “factions” she will become a part of. The first is Abnegation, her family’s faction that would give a comfortable and a simple life. But, she has always been intrigued and attracted by Dauntless, a dangerous but exciting faction. This is an example of...

• Sentence Length
• Foreshadowing
• Dilemma