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Dane Frauenheim

Cox

English 9 H

17 October 2016

Most Effective Ways To Create Suspense

Suspense is a strange feeling that comes when something is unknown and they want to

know what will happen next. Authors have many ways of effectively creating suspense in order

to keep their audience hooked including cliffhangers, slowing down at the point of climax, and

foreshadowing.

In The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe slows down at the climax to increase the

suspense. The climax of this story is when they are walking through the cellar. Let us go on ,

but first another drink of your medoc! (Poe,70). Drawing out the final result make the reader

more anxious to know the conclusion. Finally we arrived at the vault in which the air was so old

and heavy that our lights almost died. (Poe,71).

The way Richard Connell created suspense in the very first sentence of The Most

Dangerous Game ,was by using foreshadowing. Off there to the right-somewhere- is a large

island,said whitney. Its rather a mystery--, (Connell,1). By creating a bad vibe around the

island Connell foreshadows something bad about the island before the plot even begins. But its

gotten into sailor lore, somehow. Didnt you notice the crew was a bit jumpy today?, (Connell,

1). From this point on the reader is hooked on suspense as they want to know what will happen

next.
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At the end of And Then There Were None ,Agatha Christie leaves the reader with a

temporary cliffhanger to create suspense. But in that case he said, who killed them, (Christie,

284) . After this the

reader is left thinking they will never know who killed the people on the island, until they read

the manuscript. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on soldier island.

Signed: Lawrence Wargrave., (Christie,300).

Without suspense readers would not stay interested, and some of the best ways to create

suspense are slowing down at the climax, foreshadowing, and cliffhangers. Authors like Agatha

Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Connell have mastered suspense which is one of the

reasons why so many people enjoy their work.

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Works Cited

Poe, Edgar Allan, and Byron Glaser. The Cask of Amontillado. Mankato, MN: Creative

Education, 1980. Print.

Poe, Edgar Allan, and Byron Glaser. The Cask of Amontillado. Mankato, MN: Creative

Education, 1980. Print.

Poe, Edgar Allan, and Byron Glaser. The Cask of Amontillado. Mankato, MN: Creative

Education, 1980. Print.

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