Suspense Elements

Foreshadowing is ___________

• When an image, object, or person is used to represent a deeper emotion
• The way you, the reader, feels at the end of a story.
• Hints/clues that the author gives about events to come
• The  author's/character's attitude towards his/her subject, setting, or character(s)

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The state of tension and uncertainty caused by an uncertain, undecided or mysterious situation that creates an emotional pull to encourage the audience to keep reading or watching

• MOOD
• MYSTERY
• SUSPENSE
• TONE

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Plot device often used to create suspense in which the end is curiously abrupt so that the main characters are left in a difficult situation without offering any resolution of conflict.

• CLIFFHANGER
• DILEMMA
• MYSTERY
• SITUATIONAL IRONY

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A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen is:

• Conflict

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Alliteration

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The ending of a strory that leaves the reader in suspense is:

• cliffhanger

• flashback

• mood

• climax

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When a character goes back to an earlier time:

• suspense

• climaz

• flashback

• mood

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The author gives hints or clues about future events in the story:

• foreshadowing

• cliffhanger

• suspense

• mood

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The sense of anticipation or worry that the author makes the reader feel.

• suspense

• climax

• foreshadowing

• flashback

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is it called when the author gives hints or clues about future events in a story?

• cliffhanger

• plot

• suspense

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When an author gives a hint about something that will happen later...

• mood

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• narration

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