Techniques Used in Creating Suspense

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)

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

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

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

• Conflict

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Alliteration

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

• cliffhanger

• flashback

• mood

• climax

When a character goes back to an earlier time:

• suspense

• climaz

• flashback

• mood

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

• foreshadowing

• cliffhanger

• suspense

• mood

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

• suspense

• climax

• foreshadowing

• flashback

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

• cliffhanger

• plot

• suspense

• foreshadowing

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

• mood

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• narration