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Suspense

Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness. In a narrative work, suspense is the audience's excited anticipation about the plot or conflict (which may be heightened by a violent moment, stressful scene, puzzle, mystery, etc.), particularly as it affects a character for whom the audience…

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Suspense

Nodes26
Edges25
Triples183
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.076923
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related to Further reading · 92
Suspense → Aesthetic Pleasure, Amsterdam, Annual Student-Faculty Research Celebration, Aristotle's Catharsis, Artificial Intelligence, Baltimore, Baroni, Bloomington, Brooks, Cambridge, Character, Chicago, Chicago Press, Chronology, Comparative Psychology, Completed, Conceptualizations, Das Behalten, Design, Difference
related to References · 62
Suspense → Absence, Aesthetics, Arthur, Baroni, Boston, British Journal, Cambridge, Carey, Cincinnati, Company, Conceptualizations, Dictionary, Friedrichsen, Ganz, Gary, Handbook, Harmon, Harvard University PressWebster's Seventh, In Vorderer, ISBN
related to Examples · 12
Suspense → During, Gaines's, Gathering, In Ernest, In George Washington Cable's, In Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead, In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Jean-ah Poquelin, Laius, Oedipus, Old Men, Wilson
related to In narratives · 7
Suspense → An, Even, In, Isabel Allende's House, It, Readers, Spirits
related to Paradox of suspense · 4
Suspense → Baroni, Some, The, Yanal
is a · 3
Suspense → audience's excited anticipation about the plot or conflict, major device for securing and maintaining interest, state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness
related to External links · 3
Suspense → Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia, The Paradox

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narrative press uncertainty university paradox plot know fiction story reader baroni dictionary reading narratives excitement anticipation conflict mystery even tension

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Suspenseis astate of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness0.90text
Suspenseis aaudience's excited anticipation about the plot or conflict0.90text
Suspenseis amajor device for securing and maintaining interest0.90text
Suspenserelated to ExamplesIn Sophocles' Oedipus Rex0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesOedipus0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesLaius0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesDuring0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesIn George Washington Cable's0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesJean-ah Poquelin0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesIn Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesWilson0.60section
Suspenserelated to ExamplesIn Ernest0.60section

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