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suspense and foreshadowing

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Anxiety

b)

Suspense

c)

Dilemma

d)

Foreshadowing

2.
Define foreshadowing.
a)
A flashback of what happened previously
b)
A hint at something that will happen later
c)
Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
d)
Comparing two unlike things using like or as
3.

A sense of growing tension, fear, and excitement felt by the reader.

a)

Anxiety

b)

Suspense

c)

Dilemma

d)

Foreshadowing

4.
Writer's create suspense by raising questions. 
a)
True
b)
False
5.
Is this situation suspenseful? 
Cautiously, Darrell stepped farther out onto the ice-covered pond. 
a)
yes
b)
no
6.
Is this situations suspenseful? 
Gwen smiled to see the puppy cuddled side by side with her older dog, Quincy. 
a)
yes
b)
no
7.
Suspense makes you want to read what happens next. 
a)
true 
b)
false
8.
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?"
a)
yes
b)
no
9.
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? 
a)
Something goes wrong
b)
Nothing goes wrong
c)
Allison inherits the throne
d)
they jump off a plane
10.

Foreshadowing can be found___________.

a)

in the descriptions of the setting or the characters

b)

in the dialogue

c)

in the attitudes or reactions of the characters

d)

all of the above