Aesthetics: Narrative Suspense
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Adage
- African-American folk sayings
- Alternative story
- Anti-climax
- Anticipation
- Argument
- Background
- Child's perspective
- Chronological enjambment
- Collaborative narration
- Commentary
- Communal narrative
- Conjectural narration
- Contested
- Conversation with oneself
- Cyclical
- Delayed revelation
- Disruption
- Epiphany
- Fantasy
- First-person
- First-person passim
- First-person passim throughout section
- First-person plural passim
- First-person vernacular
- First-person vernacular passim
- Flash forward
- Foreshadowing
- Frame
- Free indirect discourse
- Gaps
- Imagined conversation
- Indeterminacy
- Irony
- Mid-sentence insertion of another thought
- Multiple quotations in a single paragraph
- Narrative anomaly
- Narrative shift
- Origin
- Parentheses
- Pause
- Perspective
- Present-time reference
- Quotation as thought
- Reconstructed
- Repetition
- Reported narration
- Reported narration passim
- Reported narration passim in section
- Resumption of sentence after interruption
- Revision
- Revisionary
- Second-person directed
- Self-correction
- Self-Reflective
- Stream of consciousness narration
- Summary
- Suspended|Resumed
- Temporal discontinuity
- Temporal projection
- Theatrical effect
- Under oath
- Unidentified character
- Unreliable narrator
- Withholding
Tagged Events
Actions: Verbal›Questioning
Aesthetics: Ambiguity›And detective plot | Narrative›Suspense
Environment: Time of Day›Night
Actions: Communication›Lack of communication | Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Withholding
Cultural Issues: Group Mentality›Community collective
Themes and Motifs: Community›Opinion | Meaning›Mystery | Past›Unknown/concealed past | Time›Duration of time
Aesthetics: Ambiguity | Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Suspense | Narrative›Withholding
Environment: Place›Indian mound
Actions: Emotional›Impatience
Aesthetics: Narrative›Anticipation | Narrative›Suspense