The Art of Suspense
A feeling of uncertainty or fear about what will happen.
What is suspense?
Ponyboy knows that he and this brother have unusual names.
Who is Sodapop?
This is the literary term for the message or lesson that an author wants us to take away from a text.
What is a theme/theme statement?
The defendant is accused of this crime.
What is murder?
If you incorporate text evidence without giving credit to the author you are doing this.
What is plagiarizing?
Promised a large sum of money in exchange for causing a stranger's death, Norma is upset to find that this unexpected person dies instead.
Who is Arthur/her husband?
She agrees to be a spy for the Greasers.
Who is Cherry?
Frederick Douglass wrote a letter confirming this famous woman's actions.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This Juror votes not guilty throughout the entire play.
Who is Juror 8?
This word describes the author's attitude or feelings toward a topic.
What is tone?
Mary uses this unconventional weapon to kill her husband and then gets the police to dispose of the weapon!
What is a leg of lamb?
He dies after risking his life to save schoolchildren from a fire.
Who is Johnny?
General Eisenhower gave his famous Order of the Day before this famous battle.
What is DDay?
This is the term for the text on a script that tells the actors what to do, how to move, and what the stage looks like.
What are stage directions?
These are the two parts of a complete sentence.
After killing the old man with the "evil eye," our narrator goes crazy and can hear this noise coming from the floorboards.
What is a beating heart?
Johnny kills Bob with this weapon in the park.
What is a switchblade?
This is the literary device often used in poetry where important information or words show up again and again.
What is repetition?
This Juror is thinking about his son, not the defendant, when he is voting.
Who is Juror 3?
This is the literary term for the main character.
What is protagonist?
Name one technique that an author might use to build suspense.
Mood, descriptive language, unreliable narrator, point of view, irony, conflict, etc.
After his death, Johnny leave this book to Ponyboy along with his final message to "Stay Gold."
What is Gone With the Wind?
Who is the USSR (Russia)?
Juror 5 is a fan of this baseball team.
Who are the Milwaukee Brewers?
Text evidence always needs these two things.
What are quotation marks and a citation (page/paragraph number)?