--- title: Building tension and suspense — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 42 «Building tension and suspense» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Building tension and suspense # Building tension and suspense The 15 questions of lesson 42 «Building tension and suspense» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 92 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t1/) — Your mate goes "scary stories need loads of blood and gore or they're mid." ("Mid" means not very good.) What is the truth? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t2/) — ★★★ Which version builds the most suspense about what is in the box? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t3/) — In a cartoon, the villain explains his whole secret plan to the hero before doing anything. What does it do to the suspense? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t4/) — What would happen if a TV series answered every mystery at the end of each episode? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t5/) — A lad from Newcastle says "That story's canny scary, man." ("Canny" means quite or very in the North East.) What probably made it scary? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t6/) — ★★★ "I opened the door. There was nothing there. Then I heard my name — from behind me." Which two techniques are used? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t7/) — Your sister, dead sarcastic: "Wow, a ghost appeared and then left. Terrifying." What is she hinting? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t8/) — A Gen Z cousin says "That ending had me screaming, I'm literally deceased." ("Deceased" here means it was so good she's joking that she died.) Which ending did she probably read? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t9/) — ★★★ Which sentence uses a rhetorical question for suspense? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t10/) — Why might a writer use a one-word sentence like "Silence."? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/t11/) — A girl in Texas says "I'm fixin' to write the scariest story y'all ever read." Which is the best first tip? — right ✓ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/e1/) — Identify the technique whereby a chapter is concluded at a moment of unresolved danger. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/e2/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises the effect of a sequence of short sentences in a tense passage? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/e3/) — Select the response consistent with established principles of suspense. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/e4/) — Ascertain the meaning of the regional term "mardy" as employed in the North and Midlands of England. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [41. Describing: senses, showing and precise words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/) - next →: [43. Editing and redrafting](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/)