Writers Karin Slaughter and Lee Child share which ideas about creating suspense? Select 2 options.
Review the excerpt from Lee Child’s "A Simple Way to Create Suspense".I learned that fact in my first job. I worked in television production from 1977 until 1995, and the business changed radically during that time, mainly because of one particular invention.Compare to this excerpt from the NPR interview with Karin Slaughter.And being a Southern author, you know, I grew up with Flannery O'Connor, and I love reading her essays because she was such a—not just a wonderful writer, but she was wonderful at talking about writing.
Which note best summarizes the central idea of "A Simple Way to Create Suspense"?
According to the lecture, which of the following options is an effective strategy for note-taking?
Review the paragraph from the article "A Simple Way to Create Suspense."Readers are human, and humans seem programmed to wait for answers to questions they witness being asked. I learned that fact in my first job. I worked in television production from 1977 until 1995, and the business changed radically during that time, mainly because of one particular invention. It was something that almost no one had in 1980, and that almost everyone had in 1990, and it changed the game forever. We had to cope with it. We had to invent a solution to the serious problem it posed.
Review the paragraph from "A Simple Way to Create Suspense" the by Lee Child.Trusting such a simple system feels cheap and meretricious while you’re doing it. But it works. It’s all you need. Of course, attractive and sympathetic characters are nice to have; and elaborate and sinister entanglements are satisfying; and impossible-to-escape pits of despair are great. But they’re all luxuries. The basic narrative fuel is always the slow unveiling of the final answer.
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To identify the central idea of a text, readers must
Read the excerpt from Lee Child’s "A Simple Way to Create Suspense".Like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously.
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