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# cliffhanger

«cliffhanger» in Mova's school dictionary: **an exciting ending to a chapter or episode that leaves…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cliffhanger, cliffhangers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cliffhanger is an exciting ending to a chapter or episode that leaves you not knowing what will happen next, so you want to read or watch more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#m1)

2) A cliffhanger is also any contest or situation where the result stays uncertain until the very end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons on writing stories and suspense: end a chapter with a cliffhanger; in TV series and books; in sport, a close game; it tells the reader to keep going.

### examples

- The chapter ended on a cliffhanger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#x1)
- I couldn't stop reading because of the cliffhangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#x2)
- The match was a real cliffhanger until the final whistle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#x3)
- Write a cliffhanger to end your story's middle part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#x4)
- The TV series always ends with a cliffhanger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/#x5)

### note

Countable. One word. The idea comes from old stories where the hero was left hanging from a cliff at the end of an episode.

### In the corpora

- [A cliffhanger ends a chapter or episode at a tense moment, so the reader must read on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cliffhanger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cliffhanger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.