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    The document discusses key elements that build suspense in stories, including plot, character, setting, and mood. It provides tips for deepening suspense such as characterizing villains and victims, using foreshadowing, and employing sensory descriptions. The document also contains lists of positive and negative mood words and discusses how setting and specific details can establish mood to heighten suspense.

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    The document discusses key elements that build suspense in stories, including plot, character, setting, and mood. It provides tips for deepening suspense such as characterizing villains and victims, using foreshadowing, and employing sensory descriptions. The document also contains lists of positive and negative mood words and discusses how setting and specific details can establish mood to heighten suspense.

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    The document discusses key elements that build suspense in stories, including plot, character, setting, and mood. It provides tips for deepening suspense such as characterizing villains and victims, using foreshadowing, and employing sensory descriptions. The document also contains lists of positive and negative mood words and discusses how setting and specific details can establish mood to heighten suspense.

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    The

    E l ements
    of
    All Stories Contain Certain Elements:

    Plot
    Character
    Setting
    Anxiety or
    apprehension
    resulting from an
    uncertain,
    undecided, or
    Ways to deepen suspense
    Characterize Villain and Victim
    showing his/her motivations or
    intentions
    Ways to deepen suspense

    foreshadow
    what may
    happen
    Ways to deepen suspense
    Sensory Descriptions
    the stench of an alley
    the taste of blood
    a blood-curdling scream
    the feel of a heart racing
    suspense Setting
    Mood
    depends on the storys
    Action
    :
    Mood
    Mood can be identified by descriptive details author
    uses
    Example-We walked down the hallway (shows no
    mood)
    We crept down the long, dark hallway (you can
    identify the suspenseful mood by the vivid verb
    crept and the descriptive details)
    Mood Words List
    POSITIVE NEGATIVE
    Playful Tense
    Optimistic Gloomy
    Light-Hearted Violent
    Warm Insidious
    Hopeful Pessimistic
    Nostalgic Cold
    Peaceful Hopeless
    Welcoming Nightmarish
    Harmonious Suspenseful
    Vivacious Threatening
    Confident Terrifying
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    Setting:
    TimeCarnival Season PlaceItaly

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    Preclude Subside
    Impunity Destined
    Accost Fettered
    Explicit Revenge
    Implore Repose
    Termination Catacombs

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