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    capable of making the theater experience meaningful and eternal. The three top categories to see in a cinema are‚ without doubts: suspense‚ horror‚ and action. Suspense movies are the most attention grabbing of the three genres. They bounce a feeling of hesitation and nervousness about the outcome of the multiple actions. With tension being a primary emotion‚ suspense frequently makes people expect bad things‚ but also have a bigger perspective on the advancing events. The audience usually experiences

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    to define suspense in his films by "concern for how a character will respond to a threat about which the audience is already informed. Here‚ viewers feel suspense for the character rather than fright or shock with the character‚ [unlike his definition of surprise]" (Cohen 126). In this article‚ Cohen talks about a second kind of suspense‚ which she calls conceptual suspense. She describes it as "extending the suspense situation into a larger social/historical arena. This type of suspense makes it

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    was all in your head and there was nothing to be afraid of. However‚ what if I told you that there was an author who could recreate that same fear through his writing? A writer who could make through fears in your mind appear to come to life. A writer that goes by the name of Edgar Allen Poe. One thing he carries in his bag of tricks for creating suspense is making time stand still‚ so to speak. His writing will appear to be dragging on forever and you’ll feel as if the part you’re waiting for will

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    impress the viewers‚ you have to make them entering a world that they never seen before and they have to believe that world. The atmosphere in a Gangster genre film is really interesting to analyze due to the author capacity to place an environment of fear‚ excitation‚ violence and inhumanity. The filmmaker’s goal is to make the viewers think about what they see‚ and how to interpret it. The violence of the images has the purpose to shock the viewers‚ to make them even more humans instead of identifying

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    Heavy breathing‚ heart racing‚ the feeling of something crawling on your skin are some situations you might be put in when reading a novel such as The Monkey’s Paw. The topic that I chose to explain is how suspense contributes to shaping the mood. I agree that suspense makes the suspense because of lack of the knowledge of what is to happen next‚ can keep a person very interested and make them ready more into the story. For example‚ when i first started reading i could see why it was considered

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    Alfred Hitchcock was and still is considered one of the best horror directors of all time. He is considered the "Master of Suspense" for his very well written and directed horror films‚ which have left his mark on the movie-making industry. Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots‚ witty dialogue and just the right amount of mystery and murder with his works Vertigo‚ Psycho‚ The Birds and Rear Window .The films revolutionized the Horror/Thriller genre‚ other filmmakers began mimicking

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    believe this suspense story deserves the second place title because this story‚ much like The Tell-Tale Heart‚ paired fear and horror with the suspense. In The Monkey’s Paw‚ the author uses the fear of being buried alive‚ which I think is another interesting way to create dread in your reader‚ this helps the suspense flow a little smoother‚ because now your reader is worried and just has to know what happens to the character. I love that this suspense story used classic suspense‚ the suspense was how

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    Suspense Paper on The Most Dangerous Game In the story The Most Dangerous Game‚ the main character Mr. Rainsford fell of his yacht and landed on Ship-Trap Island. He quickly found a house on this island‚ and started to knock on the door. Quickly‚ General Zaroff opens the door and invites him to dinner. At dinner‚ the general explains his love for hunting‚ along with Rainsford. Rainsford quickly realises that the general lost his love for hunting normal animals and moved on to capturing people and

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    a very broke author. The Time traveler’s wife carries suspense because without it there would not be a point to the book. Another example of the importance of suspense in literature and in this book would be that with suspense‚ like when henry -the main character- gets shot‚ it keeps the reader entertained and engaged. Without an engaged reader this book‚ as well as literature‚ would not be popular if even existent. Finally‚ without suspense‚ literature would not hold the number one beauty of life

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    Today people use suspense for movies‚ book‚ or stories to seduce. Authors uses suspense to keep the reader interested in what they are reading. Suspense is also to keep the flow of the story. Richard ‚the author of the "Most Dangerous Game"‚ uses foreshadowing and metaphor to increase suspense throughout the story. According to the dictionary‚ foreshadowing means "to show or indicate beforehand." This use of a literary device encourages the reader to feel a sense

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