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| Question | Answer |
| Pathetic fallacy | The weather represents emotion/evokes the atmosphere |
| Ellipsis | ... |
| Fiction hooks | The literary device whereby you hook the reader's attention and intrigue them enough so that they'll keep reading. |
| Sentence Structure | Use Sentence structure to show pace |
| Tripling | Putting lists in 3's |
| Repetition | Repeating something that has already been said or written |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like the thing it is describing |
| Metonymy of gloom and horror | Objects are used to stand for something else that evokes gloom and horror |
| Withholding information | When info is withheld from the reader |
| Powerful adjectives | Describing something in a vivid, powerful way |
| Show don’t tell | A type of withholding info - Describing what will happen without giving away the answer. Make the reader work it out. |
| Red herrings | A clue or piece of information which is or is intended to be misleading or distracting. |
| Changing perspectives | Switching from different people/things. 1st person/omniscient narrator |
| Changing pronouns to add mystery | Used to replace a verb and make the sentence more interesting. It also withholds information. [he, she, they, none, which] |
| Releasing tension with sarcasm to lull into false sense of security | Building up tension to a moment and then dropping all the tension |
| Varied punctuation | Varying punctuation to change pace |
| Dropping clues | Dropping clues about what is going to happen |
| Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| Changing mood | Changing the mood + emotion |
| Cliff hangers | A dramatic and exciting ending to a piece of writing, leaving the reader in suspense |
| Interruptions in speech | Characters interrupt speech, cutting the other off. |
| Flashbacks | A scene in a film, novel, etc. set in a time earlier than the main story. |
| Short paragraphs | Like short sentences, it changes the pace of the story |
| Non-linear narrative | Where a story doesn't follow the traditional beginning > middle > end format. |
| Changing font/italics/bold | Changing the appearance of the text to create tension and change the pace |
| Imagery | Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Anthropomorphism |
| Directly addressing the reader | Talking to the reader only and no body else to create tension |
| Twists in the story | Building up and then releasing tension |
| Rhetorical Questions | A question that isn't meant to be answered |
| Stammering in speech | Can show fear and make the reader want to know what the character is saying to build tension |
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