Mastering Suspense in Writing: Tips and Examples

Explore the art of creating suspense in writing through ellipses, cliff-hangers, and half-hearted storytelling techniques. Dive into activities and examples to enhance your narrative skills and keep readers on the edge of their seats.

• Writing
• Suspense
• Ellipses
• Cliff-hangers
• Narrative

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1. The Key to Writing Suspense

2. Ellipses An ellipse is a series of three dots used to show an omission from written text. It can be used in writing to create suspense. Full quotation: Full quotation: "Today, after hours of careful thought, we voted the bill." With ellipsis: With ellipsis: "Today we voted the bill."

3. More Examples: I stood at the doorway to the strange old house I Don't remember entering the hallway reeked of something I couldn't quite place. Activity: Imagine you are in the house and you walk into the kitchen. Write a paragraph describing what you see and include ellipses in several places.

4. Word This can be the part of the presentation where you can introduce yourself, write your email Cloud

5. 01 cliff-hanger A tense and exciting ending to an episode of a story.

6. 02 half-hearted Not very keen or enthusiastic.

7. whodunit03 Murder-suspense A psychological thriller story.

8. Sugar cane04 The plant from which sugar is obtained.

9. Hyphens Hyphens join two or more words to show that they have a combined meaning, creating compound nouns, adjectives or verbs. Such as: Fire-fighter Part-time Test-drive These words are always hyphenated.

10. Activity: Which of the following are fixed compounds (they have to be hyphenated) and which are not? short-term sun-shine peanut-butter full-scale old-fashioned re-collect rock-hard deep-fried mail-box

11. Activity: Which of the following are fixed compounds (they have to be hyphenated) and which are not? short-term sun-shine peanut-butter full-scale old-fashioned re-collect rock-hard deep-fried mail-box

12. Elements of Suspense/Building Suspense 1. Simple Sentences 2. Compound Sentences 3.Complex Sentences 4. Ellipses 5. Hyphenated compound 6.Time pressure 7. Likeable hero(ine) 9.cliff- hanger 8. Familiar setting 10. Questions 11.Dilemma 12.anticlimax

13. Elements of Suspense/Building Suspense 12.anticlimax the usually sudden transition in discourse from a one idea to another idea.