A copy of your quiz results will be sent to the email address you provide. You may want to email it to your teacher/parent, for example. Please enter your email: 1. How is suspense created? By warning your audience that something bad is about to happen, and then postponing it. By warning your audience that something bad is about to happen, and then faking them out over and over again until they don’t think it’s coming anymore. By warning your audience that something bad is about to happen, and then making something else bad happen instead. By planting a whole array of hints about possible bad things that could happen, so every reader’s personal fears are engaged. 2. What are the three ways we discussed of warning the audience that something bad is about to happen to the hero? (For a total of 3 points). Create a symbol of dread. Make your hero think he/she is invulnerable and has nothing to fear. Make your hero afraid of something. Make it happen to someone else. Make everything in the story too good to be true. Give your hero a nightmare about it. 3. Dread is a combination of ______________, expectation, and fear. (The blank stands in for one-word and multiple-word answers.) oblivion curiosity status quo anxiety blind enthusiasm 4. When “something to want” meets “something to dread” what do we find? Opportunity Confusion Conflict 5. What is our term, in this curriculum, for a “bad thing around the corner”? A dreadful promise A revelation A surprise A plot twist 6. What does a story villain embody? Conflict Power Confusion 7. If you fulfill every dreadful promise you make, you will bore your reader. True False 8. How do we fulfill a dreadful promise? By concealing the thing to dread in order to reveal it later when we are ready to fulfill it. By making the thing to dread worse than expected. By changing the thing to dread so the reader does not see the fulfillment coming. By making the thing to dread a victory in disguise. 9. The obstacles in your hero’s way should become increasingly difficult, and flow naturally from the conflict. When done well, what does this produce? A rising conflict An increasingly confusing conflict An unexpected conflict 10. Please enter your first and last name. (This field has no point value; we ask for your name so we can forward you your results if you do not receive an email copy.) Loading … Share this:FacebookX
