TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful
Victoria Smith gives some tips for adding suspense to your writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Suspense
This slideshow focuses on the use of suspense in fiction by stating the purpose of suspense, discussing four ways authors create suspense, showing that all forms of literature contain suspense, and presenting an example with John...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
TES Global
Tes: The Dark Beneath by Alan Gibbons
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation includes incremental steps that will help students write a language analysis essay of Alan Gibbons' The Dark Beneath.
TES Global
Blendspace: What Makes Stories Scary?
A learning module that includes fourteen links to websites, videos, and activities on writing scary stories. Lessons focus on vocabulary, plot and character development, elements of gothic stories, tone and mood, suspense, and more.
TES Global
Tes: An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will complete this reading guide for J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls as they read or as a reflective reading activity. Students will be able to analyze characters, the historical context,...
Virtual Salt
Visual Salt: Elements of the Gothic Novel
This site gives a listing and description of the typical elements usually found in gothic novels. It also provides a list of example vocabulary typically found in gothic novels.
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