Pre-Assessment: Suspense Techniques

Why is suspense important in a story?

Suspense is important important to writing because...

• it is only in the beginning of the story.

• it tells the reader where the setting is.

• it draws the reader into the story.

• it answers all the questions the reader has.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.6

_________ creates suspense because the character(s) are dealing with a problem and the reader wants to know how it is resolved.

• Setting

• Conflict

• Dramatic irony

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

• Delaying the Answer

• Foreshadowing

• Slow Down Method

• Dramatic Irony

___________ 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.

• Dramatic Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Mood

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

Darkness is an example of which suspense technique?

• conflict

• dramatic irony

• foreshadowing

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

_________ creates the action in the story.

• Conflict

• Setting

• Foreshadowing

• Titles

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• surprise ending

• mood

• imagery

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.3D

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

• Slow Down Method

• Alliteration

• Mood

• Onomatopoeias

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

__________ can help speed up the pace of the words and increase the readers excitement.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Mood

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• First person narrator

• Second person narrator

• Unbelievable narrator

• Unreliable narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4