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Characters
Vocabulary
Plot
Suspense One
Suspense Two
100
The person trying to solve the mystery
What is a detective, investigator, or sleuth?
100
Hints that help the detective and the reader solve the mystery
What are clues?
100
The events in a story
What is the plot?
100
anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation
What is suspense?
100
the main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
200
A person who has seen or heard something important to the story
What is a witness?
200
An excuse that an accused person uses to show that he or she was not at the scene of the crime
What is an alibi?
200
The part of the mystery where you learn about the problem and meet the characters
What is the introduction or exposition?
200
One thing suspense is built with
What is facts, innuendo, atmosphere, or action?
200
The character who goes against the goals or intentions of the main character of the story
What is the antagonist?
300
Someone who is possibly guilty of a crime or responsible for an unexplained event
What is a suspect?
300
An action that breaks the law
What is a crime?
300
The part of the story where someone is working to solve the mystery
What is the body or rising action of the story?
300
sets the tone or mood and can go along with the character's mental state
What is the weather or the season?
300
the author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
400
This is what a good detective gets when he or she suspects something is going on or wrong in a situation
What is a hunch?
400
a thing or statement that helps to prove who committed the crime
What is evidence?
400
The part of the story where the mystery is solved
What is the resolution or conclusion?
400
describing an event from the past to deepen suspense
What is foreshadowing?
400
the author of "The Raven"
What is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
Another name for the antagonist in a story
What is the villain?
500
the discovery that helps solve the crime
What is a breakthrough?
500
The tool for writing out the key events of the plot
What is a plot diagram?
500
The five things an author appeals to in order to make the story more realistic
What is the senses?
500
The author of Goosebumps
Who is RL Stine?