Suspense Techniques

The state of tension and uncertainty caused by an uncertain, undecided or mysterious situation that creates an emotional pull to encourage the audience to keep reading or watching

• MOOD

• MYSTERY

• SUSPENSE

• TONE

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

• Conflict

• Dramatic Irony

• Suspense

• Alliteration

What is when the author only gives readers a little information so they are in suspense to learn more?

• Selective Information

• Selective hearing

• Suspenseful Title

• Superstition

Which technique is when the author builds the story to intensity and the reader to the edge of their seat and then changes the pace of the story to draw out suspense?

• Suspenseful Title

• Selective Information

• Slow Down Method

• Figurative Language

How does the author build tension in a suspenseful scene?

• Musical score, use of humor

• Detailed character backstories, slow pacing

• Predictable plot twists, lack of conflict

• Descriptive language, sense of urgency, unexpected plot twists, pacing manipulation

Darkness is an example of which suspense technique?

• conflict

• dramatic irony

• foreshadowing

• setting

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

• Worry/Anxiety

• Isolation

• Dangerous Situation

• Pacing

Foreshadowing in thrillers is used to:

• Immediately resolve the story's mysteries

• Provide hints or clues about future events in the story

• Describe the setting in detail

• Introduce new characters

Which techniques is when the author will give information and ask a question at the beginning and not give the answer until the end?

• Slow Down Method

• Delaying the Answer

• Selective information

• Suspense

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.