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    Introduction: • Topic sentence:There are so many reasons why "The landlady"and “"Lamb to the Slaughter"”create suspense.They play important roles in the stories one is a murder and another wants certain men.These roles create suspense and will tell the author what is going on in the story. Summary of both stories : In lamb to the slaughter Mary kills her husband‚Patrik‚because she wants to be with him because him and Mary are having a child.As Mary hits patrick with the lamb Mary tries to hide

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    atmosphere of suspense. The three major scenes that display suspense in this film are The Cave Witch‚ Magistrate Philipse and A Head for a Head. Burton uses tension to create suspense and keep the audience on the edge of their seats. Burton’s use of techniques build and atmosphere of suspense in Sleepy Hollow. In the scene The Cave Witch Burton explores a variety of techniques such as mise-en–scene and sound. The background music is significant as it build tension which creates suspense and fear.

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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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    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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    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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    Hitchhiker” and “The Maze Runner” effectively created suspense through the use of dramatic elements. Imagery creates suspense in “The Hitchhiker” and “The Maze Runner.” Dialogue between characters creates suspense in the two texts. The two texts use setting to create suspense. Therefore the authors of “The Maze Runner” and “The Hitchhiker” Effectively created suspense‚ because of the imagery‚ setting‚ and dialogue. Imagery creates suspense in “The Maze Runner” and “ The Hitchhiker.” In “The Hitchhiker”

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    Suspense in Shooter The theme of Shooter by Caroline Pignat is developed through suspense and the characters coming to talk about their problems. In Shooter‚ suspense is built through the story of high school students trapped in the boy’s bathroom during a school shooting by introducing small details about much deeper issue without going into the full problems and their backstories. To begin with‚ all characters in Shooter have issues‚ some with scholarships and parents‚ and social issues

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    felt by the reader. Poe builds suspense by describing the character’s fear.‚using vivid words‚repetition ‚and describing a suspenseful setting . In the story‚The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe‚Poe describes the anxiety and fear of his characters to

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    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 never happen. Poe creates this illusion by describing every little detail going on in the current setting

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