SUSPENSE IN A

STORY
Olivia Octavia 8G/30
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the story 'A Case of Identity' (page 78) again.

2. Complete the table in task 1.

3. Write a paragraph to conclude your analysis of the techniques used to create suspense in the
story.
 TASK 1 - SUSPENSE IN A STORY: POINT-EVIDENCE-EXPLANATION
POINT: What techniques are used
to create suspense in the story.
cliffhanger
Right setting and imagery
Point of view limits
EVIDENCE: Provide evidence
from the text for each
technique used.
It only ends the paragraph
with mary’s dialogue, “Mr
Holmes and I have never
seen or heard anything-”
“What happened when Mr
Windibank, your stepfather,
returned to France?+ “Can
you remember any little
things about Mr Hosmer
Angel?” “He was a very…”
Mary mostly give the
information based on what
she think/saw
EXPLANATION: How does each
technique create suspense?
The story does not end in a conclusion,
and no clear ending what happens
next
Mr Holmes asked a few details things
that made us able to understand the
situation between the victim and other
people. Mary is also able to give
needed information
Based on Mary’s side of pov only
TASK 2: PARAGRAPH
In The story ‘A Case of Identity’, I can identify 3 types of techniques used. The first technique
is limiting point of view. In the story we only know Mary’s point of view from what she saw
and think. I think that the second technique used is the right setting and imagery. The
setting in the story is somewhere in the walkway at the night, which is often silent and used
for focus-need conversations. Mary is also able to describe and image her relationship with
other characters. The third technique is cliffhanger, where it does not show an end.