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Sunday, January 6, 2013

What is Suspense?


The quality in a tale or story that makes the reader or speaker eager to dredge up or discover what happens next and how the story will end.

10 comments:

  1. Suspense????
    In a story it may be the point at which the reader feels more eager or the excitement to know the end, and what would happen next!
    In this part of the story also makes a strong feelings of the the reader.

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  2. this emotion arises when someone is aware of his lack of knowledge about the development of a meaningful event. Thus, suspense is a combination of anticipation and uncertainty dealing with the obscurity of the future.

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  3. Suspense is a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.

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  4. Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. It may operate whenever there is a perceived suspended drama or a chain of cause is left in doubt, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation.

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  5. Suspense as an element of drama; it is an element of uncertainty, anxiety, excitement producing a situation which breathes something untoward or ominous to happen.

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  6. Suspense bring the audience to a feeling of curiosity or at the height of excitement wherein they are aroused and can't get off with the story or the event in the story.

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  7. 1. The condition of being physically suspended.
    2.
    a. The state or quality of being undecided, uncertain, or doubtful.
    b. Pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome, such as the ending of a mystery novel.
    3. Anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation.

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  8. Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. It may operate whenever there is a perceived suspended drama or a chain of cause is left in doubt, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation.

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  9. suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work.

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  10. feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work.

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