Suspense Elements

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

• Anxiety

• Suspense

• Dilemma

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions is...

• Mood

• Tone

• Sensory details

• Mystery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The attitude the writer takes towards a subject or an audience is...

• Mood

• Tone

• Perspective

• Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A device in a narrative in which a scene that takes place in the past is inserted somewhere into the narrative.

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Mystery

• Cliffhanger

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

CCSS.W.8.3C

The ending of an installment of fiction that ends in suspense in order to interest the reader.

• Cliffhanger

• Mystery

• Reversal

• Suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives is...

• Dilemma

• Mystery

• Suspense

• Situational Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist is...

• Reversal

• Mystery

• Dilemma

• Situational irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

Information about characters or plot that is deliberately withheld from the reader to be revealed later is...

• Mystery

• Suspense

• Dramatic irony

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

• Unreliable narrator

• Unbelievable narrator

• First person narrator

• Second person narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

The writer's use of clues - true or false - that may or may not hint or suggest the story's outcome is...

• Mystery

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Red herring

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.9A