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This document discusses the elements of suspense in stories. It defines suspense as the uncertainty or anxiety a reader feels about what will happen next. There are four main elements that create suspense: foreshadowing, mystery, dilemma, and reversal. Foreshadowing provides clues about future events, mystery withholds information or includes unexplained elements, dilemma puts characters in dangerous situations with choices to make, and reversal involves sudden changes in the plot. Suspense is also built through details, settings, characters' fears and past experiences. The villain, other characters, and themes about people and the mind can deepen suspense further. Suspense keeps readers engaged by constantly leaving them wondering what will occur.
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- 1. Suspense There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. -Alfred Hitchcock
- 2. All Stories Contain Certain Elements •Plot •Character •Setting •Dialogue •Narrative
- 3. Suspense: the uncertainty or anxiety a reader feels about what will happen next in a story • there must be an unknown; a suspicion, a mystery, a danger we expect • The word suspense is related to the word suspended. When a story keeps us in suspense, we feel almost as if we were suspended in midair. We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends.
- 4. Suspense is built with details, innuendo, setting, actions And can be deepened through: • dreams: what can happen, nightmares of the character’s fears, flashbacks of a haunted past • clues: letters, journals, pictures, evidence, items, etc. • time & weather: night, thunderstorms, blizzards, cold • senses: smell of blood, taste of fear, sound of scraping, dark or vivid colors, etc.
- 5. Four Main Elements of Suspense Foreshadowing the writer may give clues, sometimes even false clues, that hint at what will happen later in the story Examples: • a gun found in a drawer may hint at violence later • As dark clouds rolled in, a brisk wind raised bumps all over my skin.
- 6. Four Main Elements of Suspense Mystery The author withholds information (Who is the murder? How was the crime committed?) or includes something difficult or impossible to explain. Any Unusual or mysterious circumstance can create suspense. Examples: • The main character may get a cryptic letter from an unknown sender • Suddenly a scream pierced the night. I leapt to my feet. I stood totally motionless. All was silent…and then it came again, only this time closer to us.
- 7. Four Main Elements of Suspense Dilemma A character, especially one we care about, is in great peril or must choose between two dangerous courses of action What will the character choose? Will he/she succeed? Examples: • The main character may have to choose whether or not to follow a suspicious character down a dark stairway. • In the Hunger Games, Katniss has to decide between killing Peeta or herself
- 8. Four Main Elements of Suspense Reversal The situation suddenly changes from good to bad or vice-versa; a sudden shift in plot direction An unexpected change that leaves the reader wondering what will happen next Examples: • A “friend” really turns out to be working against the main character or passing information to those who are after him. • In Freak the Mighty, as Loretta is freeing Max and we think he is going to be safe, Killer Kane grabs Loretta by the throat.
- 9. Suspense makes you stay on your toes. You never know what will happen.
- 10. Ways to deepen suspense… The Villain •his/her motivations or intentions •background •simple greed, jealousy, money •insanity •the complicated serial killer mind
- 11. Ways to deepen suspense… Other characters •plant red herrings •shift suspicion onto them
- 12. Themes Concerning People • Terror inflicted upon the often unknowing and innocent victim • Innocent people caught up in events they cannot control • Transference of guilt: innocent character’s failings are transferred to another character and magnified • Explored the compatibility of men and women (especially a mother figure) • The wrong man
- 13. Themes Concerning the Mind •Guilt (real or the appearance of it) •Redemption •Early films reflected the political climate of Europe during the war •Preferred to use suspense rather than surprise