Foreshadowing and Suspense

What is foreshadowing?

• Hints or clues the author uses to suggest something that is about to happen

• A struggle which takes place in the protagonist's mind

• The part of the story where problems are solved; The end of the story

• a minor plot that relates in some way to the story

What is a flashback?

• an interruption of the story to depict an earlier event or time

• a comparison of 2 or more things without using "like" or "as"

• something that stands for or represents something else

• a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

What is suspense?

• when you say the opposite of what you mean; includes sarcasm

• an interruption of the story to depict an earlier event or time

• the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for what happens next in the story

• a comparison of 2 or more things without using "like" or "as"

Suspense usually occurs in which part of plot?

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

“Remember, Cinderella,” warned her fairy godmother, “you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember.”

“Of course, I’ll remember,” said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• Verbal Irony

Often times provides background information

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• suspense

• Dialect

Which is present in the following paragraph?

The snowball smacked Walter in the shoulder. He turned and saw Crenshaw and his friends laughing. Like a flood, the memory of a snowball exploding into his face in fourth grade filled him. Big Andre had thrown that one. The kids had had a good laugh. Walter charged Crenshaw. "How do you like it?" he yelled, as he pushed Crenshaw's startled face into the snow.

• Suspense

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

Which is present in the following sentence?

Sam wished he could rid himself of the sick feeling in his

gut that told him something terrible was going to happen,

and happen soon

• Suspense

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Allusion

Which is present in the following paragraph?

Lightning streaked across the greenish-black sky yet, the air was oddly still. When the warning siren shrieked, the family knew that they should head for the storm cellar.

• Suspense

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Simile

Which is present in the following sentence?

The smell of homemade chocolate chip cookies conjured up the image of Susan's grandmother standing in a flour-covered apron.

• Flashback

• Suspense

• Foreshadowing

• Dramatic Irony