Why is suspense important in a story?

Suspense is important important to writing because...

________ is when the writer gives clues or hints about what will happen later in the story.

___________ is when the author gives the reader information so that he or she knows that something important is going to happen, but the character(s) is not aware of the upcoming situation or upcoming danger.

Darkness is an example of which suspense technique?

When a story has good ______________ it helps the reader picture the story in their mind and this can make it much scarier.

__________ helps the reader hear the scary sounds of the story in their minds.

When the narrator of the story cannot be trusted they are called a(n) __________ .

The purpose of suspense is to keep the reader interested in the story.

Create moments when everything seems to be ok.

Providing something/someone odd, peculiar, or strange to provide questions in the reader/viewer.

Advancing or developing something at a particular rate or tempo is looming.

In the Silhouette, when the speaker is alone in the parking lot this creates the suspense technique of ___________.

Laurie's mother as the narrator only telling the reader one side of the story is an example of ______________

In the Elevator, "Light from the single fluorescent ceiling

strip, bleak and dim on the dirty brown walls" is an example of __________

In the short film, 2 AM, the main character watches the antagonist (man with the smile) turn around and walk away. This is an example of _____________.