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Features of Suspense Story

This document discusses the features of suspense stories, including that suspense keeps readers interested by creating anticipation of something risky or dangerous. It may make readers feel scared, worried, or excited. Authors can use techniques like similes, metaphors, ellipsis, and short sentences to build suspense. These features help paint a vivid picture, create cliffhangers, and increase the pace of the story.

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Features of Suspense Story

This document discusses the features of suspense stories, including that suspense keeps readers interested by creating anticipation of something risky or dangerous. It may make readers feel scared, worried, or excited. Authors can use techniques like similes, metaphors, ellipsis, and short sentences to build suspense. These features help paint a vivid picture, create cliffhangers, and increase the pace of the story.

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Features of Suspense Story

Prepared by Laila Jannat


Lesson Objective:
• Student will be able to identify
the features of Suspense Story
• Suspense is a literary device that
authors use to keep their readers’
interest alive throughout the work.
• It is a feeling of anticipation that
something risky or dangerous is
about to happen.
When reading stories that include suspense and mystery,
readers can feel:
• scared or frightened;
• worried or anxious;
• excited or thrilled;
• Goose bumps or shivers;
• concerned as to what might happen next;
• keen to read on!
 

How to Create Suspense:

. • simile and metaphor;


• the use of ellipsis;
• short, snappy sentences;
• using sentences that appeal to the senses.
How Do the Features Help Build Suspense
simile and • Similes and metaphors add further description,
which compare helps their reader to paint a
metaphor detailed picture in their mind.

• Ellipsis shows a long pause, which can be used as a

use of ellipsis cliffhanger so the reader wonders ‘what happens next?’ It


also shows pauses in the middle of action to create a sense of
hesitation about the outcome.

short, snappy • Short sentences are read quickly, one after the other so that
the pace of the story quickens. It almost makes the reader
sentences feel like they are panicking or breathing more quickly.
Suspense makes you stay on your toes. You
never know what will happen.

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