Suspense Tricks

"Would you like to come inside for a few minutes and look around?" Where Is Here?

• lofty viewpoint

• keep the stakes high

• apply pressure

• good villain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In the next room, the dining room, the stranger appeared to be even more deeply moved. For some time he stood staring, wordless.

Where Is Here?

• apply pressure

• good villain

• complicate matters

• create dilemma

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

"There used to be a large water stain here, like a shadow," said the stranger.

Where Is Here?

• complicate matters

• lofty viewpoint

• good villain

• time constraint

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Whenever Irene talked in her sleep, I woke up immediately and stayed awake.

House Taken Over

• keep the stakes high

• be unpredictable

• complicate matters

• apply pressure

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The first few days were painful, since we'd both left so many things in the part that had been taken over. My collection of French literature, for example, was still in the library.

House Taken Over

• complicate matters

• good hero

• be unpredictable

• lofty viewpoint

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

During the day there were the household sounds, the metallic click of knitting needles, the rustle of stamp–album pages turning.

House Taken Over

• lofty viewpoint

• keep the stakes high

• be unpredictable

• complicate matters

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The stranger was saying in a slow, dazed voice, 'It all comes back to me now. How could I have forgotten!'

Where Is Here?

• be unpredictable

• lofty viewpoint

• apply pressure

• good villain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The father, his face burning with resentment and his heart accelerating as if in preparation for combat, had no choice but to follow the stranger and the mother up the stairs.

Where Is Here?

• keep the stakes high

• complicate matters

• apply pressure

• be unpredictable

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

It was the son's room -- by coincidence, the stranger's old room -- the stranger most wanted to see.

Where Is Here?

• lofty viewpoint

• apply pressure

• complicate matters

• be unpredictable

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

We didn't wait to look at one another. I took Irene’s arm and forced her to run to the wrought–iron door, not wait to look back. You could hear the noise, still muffled but louder, just behind us.

House Taken Over

• time constraints

• complicate matters

• lofty viewpoint

• apply pressure

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.1