Suspense and Foreshadowing

Read each passage. Select Yes if you can find evidence of foreshadowing in the passage.
Luis shouted, "Mr. Sims, don't open that door! Who knows what could be behind it?"

• yes

• no

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

• Anxiety

• Suspense

• Dilemma

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Define foreshadowing.

• flashback of what happened previously

• hint at something that will happen later

• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

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Writer's create suspense by raising questions. 

• True

• False

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What is the paragraph foreshadowing?
'Peter I don't think we should jump out of a plane like this.' Allison relax I'm the King and you're my general. What could go wrong? 

• Something goes wrong

• Nothing goes wrong

• Allison inherits the throne

• they jump off a plane

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Foreshadowing can be found___________.

• in the descriptions of the setting or the characters

• in the dialogue

• in the attitudes or reactions of the characters

• all of the above

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Suspense makes you want to read what happens next. 

• true 

• false

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A hint or clue in a story that suggests some action is to follow to create interest or suspense is called:

• foreshadowing

• allusion

• stereotyping

• flashback

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One effect or purpose of foreshadowing is to...

• trick the reader

• build suspense

• Add depth to characters

• give factual information

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What is the foreshadow in this passage?

• That Mary and Justin were going to go back to bed.

• That they might get into an accident or get lost on the lake because the fog made it impossible to see anything.

• They were about to eat breakfast.

• hat Mary and Justin were going to go for a nice boat ride across the lake.

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