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    characters‚ which creates Thriller-Suspense. Like in the case when Joyce is about to be killed‚ the audience can see the white shadow emerging from his back yet the character could not. “Secret”-Suspense and Detective-Suspense can also be created in the narration adopted omniscient Narrator strategy‚ yet omniscient Narrator is not the main reason to create these suspense. 5.1.2 Deviating from Chronological Order By deviating from chronological order‚ “Secret”-Suspense can be created due to the fact

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    The Veldt‚ focused deeply on suspense to make a more unified story. Suspense occurs in numerous occasions‚ like a slap in the face. Some people say that suspense is not necessary to create a creative story. Though it’s not necessary‚ suspense is a key to a more advanced description. No description is equivalent to no story. Description acts as the glue to meld everything together cohesively. These crafts are the base to writing The Veldt. A story based off of suspense has something special that

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    It is through great suspense and irony that Shirley Jackson tells the story of a lottery in a small town. The result of the lottery is also left open to be interpreted by the reader. All this could not be done without the use of the third person objective point of view in which the story ‚“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ is told. Shirley Jackson uses situational irony as well as verbal irony to keep the readers on their toes and especially to keep the ending a surprise. Achieving this irony would

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    Summary: An older couple with a family holds what could be a winning lottery ticket‚ but resists checking the numbers while they daydream about what they might do with the money. It examines how‚ at first‚ their reaction to the possibility of wealth is joyful; but rather than share their dreams and communicate their wishes‚ it looks at how Ivan Dmitritch and his wife‚ Masha‚ recede into their own worlds. It attempts to show how money definitely does not buy love and how‚ in fact‚ it has the

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    This essay analysis of “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov will mainly review the changing attitudes of Ivan towards his wife and family as the short story develops‚ and the techniques that the author uses in order to build tension and interest in the story and in the fate of the couple. Anton Chekhov gets to the action of the short story very quickly. A brief but information packed first paragraph tells us without embroidery‚ what we need to know as readers.The author tells us that Ivan is  middle-class

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    Suspense begins in Roskolnikov’s thoughts There are times where we find ourselves living in suspense‚ feeling insecure about what possibly can occur next. So many things that surround us‚ at times‚ foreshadow what may happen next. When this happens‚ we crave to know what is the next event that will arrive. In the book of Crime and Punishment‚ there are many parts in which the story becomes suspenseful. Well‚ how does Dostoyevsky achieve and sustain the suspense in his novel? It

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    2014 Prompt #3 Suspense in ’The Veiled Lady’ ’The Veiled Lady’ is a short story written by Agatha Christie‚ a short story with a great deal of suspense. Suspense requires many literary elements to be effective. Suspense builds up throughout ’The Veiled Lady’ through the author’s use of elements of fiction such as a red herring‚ foreshadowing‚ and melodrama. The precise use of these three elements of fiction effectively creates an atmosphere of suspense‚ leaving the reader

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    The Lottery Ticket Anton Pavlovich Checkhov (1860-1904) Anton Pavlovich Checkhov (1860-1904) stands out as one of the greatest short story writers of the world. He was educated as a doctor of medicine but preferred writing to doctoring. In his short story‚ “The Lottery Ticket”‚ he demonstrates that the mere thought of money can severely impact a personal relationship. Characters: Ivan Dmitritch – He is the major character and he is protagonist. He is from a middle-class. He does not care about games

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    ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson is a short story that uses plot. characterisation and suspense to develop several themes. In doing so Jackson deepens our understanding of people and the nature of society. The story begins in a growing village which holds an annual lottery‚ but instead of being rewarded the person who receives the marked paper gets stoned to death.

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    These articles contain information about adults who cannot get enough of fiction novels that put readers into a state of suspense. Thus making the reader want to read more about what happens next in the plot. The reader cannot get enough of the dark side‚ it describes how the reader keeps on wanting more from the novel. It also talks about the good vs. evil that captures most young adults’ and teenagers’ attention with its dark suspenseful literature. According to one of the articles‚ “teenagers

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