Author Techniques & Effects: Suspense & Tension

Foreshadowing is ___________

• When an image, object, or person is used to represent a deeper emotion
• The way you, the reader, feels at the end of a story.
• Hints/clues that the author gives about events to come
• The  author's/character's attitude towards his/her subject, setting, or character(s)

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.

________ 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

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

• First person narrator

• Second person narrator

• Unbelievable narrator

• Unreliable narrator

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

• True

• False

Pacing

• Doing something at a steady speedy to not tire oneself out

• Conversation between characters

• Unique voice for each writer

• Speed/rhythm of writing

What is verbal irony?

• When what is said is different than what is meant
• When what happens is the opposite of what is expected
• When the audience knows something a character doesn't know. 

Is this dramatic irony?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

What is the "mood" of  a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
• The time and place of the story.
• The summary of events of the story.
• The lesson the reader learns from the story.