
Suspense Elements Review
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Marisa Nichols
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Multiple Choice
What element evokes certain feelings in the reader through words and descriptions?
Tone
Mood
Dilemma
Reversal
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Multiple Select
Select which elements of a story/movie that help create mood:
Setting
Description
Music
Viewpoint of the Writer
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Multiple Choice
What is the writer's use of clues - true or false - that hint at a story's outcome?
Flashback
Tone
Foreshadowing
Irony
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Multiple Select
Select the examples of foreshadowing in "The Monkey's Paw":
It was a dark, stormy winter's night.
Mr. White loses to Herbert at a game of chess.
We don't know the first two wishes on the paw, but the last one was for death.
Herbert jokes about a creature watching his dad at night, watching him pocket his money.
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Multiple Choice
What is a narrative device that inserts a scene that has happened before present time into the chronological sequence of the movie/text?
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Reversal
Dilemma
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Multiple Choice
You forgot that you have a paper due tomorrow. You find one on the exact subject online. You are struggling to decide whether or not to turn it in. This would be an example of a...?
Cliffhanger
Reversal
Situational Irony
Dilemma
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an unexpected turn of events for the characters (bad to good, good to bad, bad to worse, etc.)?
Dilemma
Reversal
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the attitude of the writer toward a subject or work?
Mood
Irony
Tone
Setting
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Multiple Select
Select all of the following elements that contribute to tone:
Music
Viewpoint of the Writer
Choice of Words
Description
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an abrupt end to a story that usually asks readers/viewers to read/view on into the next part of the series?
Dilemma
Flashback
Cliffhanger
Foreshadowing
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Multiple Choice
Which version of "The Monkey's Paw" ended in a cliffhanger?
The Play
The Movie
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is information that is deliberately withheld from the reader to be revealed later?
Mood
Reversal
Dilemma
Mystery
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Multiple Select
Select all the things that helped create mystery in the MOVIE version of "The Monkey's Paw":
The fog, darkness, and shadows.
The lack of information (what were those wishes?).
The rain/storm.
The firelight on their faces.
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Multiple Choice
What is a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives?
Dilemma
Reversal
Mood
Foreshadowing
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Multiple Choice
What type of irony is it when you say something but you mean the opposite?
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
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Multiple Choice
What type of irony is it when the audience knows something the characters don't?
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
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Multiple Choice
What type of irony is it when you do something with certain intentions but the opposite happens?
Verbal
Situational
Dramatic
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