1. Try to unscramble the following words:
Contrast
Objectives: To explore how contrast is used to create tension.
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Hill uses contrast to create tension, in the opening chapter of “The Woman in Black”.
Try to unscramble the following words:
Therwea
Tionacol
Stylelife
Riessto stohg
tionsome

2. How does Hill create tension?
Therwea
Tionacol
Stylelife
Riessto stohg
tionsome
Weather
Location
Lifestyle
Ghost stories
Emotions

3. What does tension mean?
Tension is one of the main emotions felt when a writer creates suspense. Suspense is a feeling of excitement, anticipation or uncertainty.

4. Reading page 16-24
Whilst reading, the rest of the opening chapter, try to spot examples of contrast being used to create tension and suspense.

5. Contrasts and tension
One of the ways that Hill creates tension, in the opening chapter is through contrast. You are going to see several images. When you have looked carefully at the image go and stand next to the contrasting image.

6. Stand next to the image which is contrasting.

7. Contrasting image

8. ‘flowers of midsummer’
Contrast: Weather
‘flowers of midsummer’
‘utter blackness’

9. Stand next to the image which is contrasting.

10. Contrasting image

11. Contrast: Location ‘ but two miles from a good sized village’
‘an air of remoteness and isolation’

12. Stand next to the image which is contrasting.

13. Contrasting image

14. Contrast: Lifestyle ‘sit back and do nothing’
‘in London I lived for my work’

15. Stand next to the image which is contrasting.

16. Contrasting image

17. Contrast: Ghost Stories
‘casual entertainment’
‘wilder and sillier’
‘a story for my eyes only’
‘the truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible’

18. Stand next to the image which is contrasting.

19. Contrasting image

20. ‘bitter battle within myself’
Contrast:Emotions
‘delight’
‘my mounting unease’
‘bitter battle within myself’

21. Analysis of how tension is created
Complete the worksheet by exploring how each example of contrast makes the reader feel.

22. To explore how contrast is used to create tension.
Objectives Achieved?
To explore how contrast is used to create tension.