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Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
What is suspense ?
Read the following passage
What does it make you think?
How does it make you feel?
The minutes ticked by. There was not a sound in the house. Then suddenly Nancy heard the front door open with a bang and Helen’s voice yell loudly and clearly:
“Police! Help! Police!”
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Suspensethe feeling of fear or uncertainty about future events
that writers use to hold their readers’ interest
I wonder what’s
going to happen next!
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
How do movie makers create suspense?
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Writers create suspense…
…by using short sentences and repeating certain words.
Sonya heard a noise. She backed away from the door. She turned. She ran. She fell. She
looked up. She gasped. She screamed.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Writers create suspense…
…by describing a setting that makes readers wonder if something is going to happen.
No one had been inside the old abandoned house for thirty years. It was the biggest, oldest, darkest, most rundown house on the block. Every now and then, the sounds of wood and plaster crashing to the floor and doors being
opened and closed by the howling winds could be heard. The place gave everyone in the neighborhood the creeps.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Writers create suspense…
…by using foreshadowing – giving readers hints about something that might happen, but not really telling them for sure.
Though he had never been in the house before, it seemed familiar to Tony. He didn’t know why, but it made him feel
terrified.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Writers create suspense…
…by withholding information from readers and revealing it slowly.
Michelle had a secret, and though she wanted to share it, she couldn’t bring herself to tell anyone. She started to tell her mother, but at the last minute, she thought better of it. She could barely contain herself when she met her best friend at the mall, but she held on, keeping her secret safe. She wondered what her friends and family would say when they found out. This was one of the most exciting days of Michelle’s life, but she had to hold on awhile longer. She couldn’t tell her secret just yet.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Suspense does not always lead to a negative event
(as in horror movies).
To remember what suspense is, think of “cliffhanger” scenes in movies and
on television shows.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Listen as At the Crossroads by Rachel Isadora is read. As you listen, make a “mind movie.”
After the reading, be ready to tell where the suspense begins and what the author has done to
create it.
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
What was suspenseful about At the Crossroads?
Where did the suspense begin to build?
How did the author create suspense?
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
• by using short sentences and repeating certain words?
• by describing a setting that makes readers wonder if something is going to happen?
• using foreshadowing – giving readers hints about something that might happen, but not really telling them for sure?
• by withholding information from readers and revealing it slowly?
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
Suspensethe feeling of fear or
uncertainty about future events that writers use to
hold their readers’ interest
Listening ComprehensionTopic: Recognizing Suspense
See if you can identify what the author of the book we are reading
does to createSuspense.