1. You will need your notebook Literary Devices: Suspense Mood/Atmosphere Theme

2. Literary Device: Suspense
Suspense is the uncertainty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next in a story.
Any kind of writing that has a plot involves some suspense, but stories with an element of mystery or horror are particularly suspenseful.

3. Elaborate
Write a quick paragraph about a story you’ve read, a show you’ve watched or a movie you’ve seen that you feel is an example of suspense. Don’t just tell me the title – explain what part you felt was the most suspenseful and why.
This is three parts: name the title, describe what the suspenseful part is, explain how it’s suspenseful.

4. In Paranormal Activity 2, the movie relies on the element of suspense
In Paranormal Activity 2, the movie relies on the element of suspense. Throughout the movie you see many “live feeds” of video footage at night. Often, the audience sees just the “normal” scene of suburbia: a still pool, a calm front porch, or a kitchen and living room with nothing happening in them. Sometimes, an unseen entity will make items move, trip sensors, open doors, etc. You know this is suspenseful because, as the audience, you’re always waiting for something to happen to scare you, or take you off guard. At times, something does occur, but others nothing happens – leaving the audience in more suspense.

5. Share Give your notebook to another student
Read the response, write your name near it, and write a comment or question.

6. Literary Device: Mood/Atmosphere
Is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
A work’s atmosphere can often be described in one or two adjectives such as: scary, happy, sad or nostalgic.
A writer produces atmosphere by creating images and using sounds that convey a particular feeling.

7. Example
A frozen field covered with ice and snow. A solitary, leafless, and withered old tree weakly stands under the blank sky.
Assignment: write a brief explanation of the mood the author created with the passage above and how you know.
The mood conveyed in the example is . I think this because

8. THEME IS A CENTRAL MESSAGE, CONCERN OR PURPOSE IN A LITERARY WORK
IT IS OFTEN A MESSAGE ABOUT LIFE, PEOPLE OR HUMANITY.
WHAT DID YOU GAIN OR LEARN TO MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON?

9. In your notebook
Create your own alternate ending for the story in which Mr. White doesn't wish Herbert dead again. What does Mrs. White see when she opens the front door? What does Mr. White spend his third wish on?

10. The Monkey’s Paw Themes:
DEATH FATE FREE WILL FAMILY
THE SUPERNATURAL TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION
There is the cliché theme:
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

11. In W.W. Jacob’s tale, “The Monkey’s Paw,” the author discusses the theme of _____________________________________________. To begin with, this theme is seen_____________________________ ________________________________________________________ *This shows that__________________________________________ **This is important because________________________________ (I have learned) __________________________________________ *THIS PROVES… **THIS IS REVEALING BECAUSE… *THIS INDICATES… **IN OTHER WORDS…

12. In W.W. Jacob’s tale, “The Monkey’s Paw,” the author discusses the theme of _____________________________________________. To begin with, this theme is seen_____________________________ *This shows that__________________________________________ **This is important because________________________________ Next, the theme is reflected________________________________ *This displays____________________________________________ **This is significant because________________________________ (I have learned) __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ *THIS PROVES… **THIS IS REVEALING BECAUSE… *THIS INDICATES… **IN OTHER WORDS…

13. The Monkey’s Paw Themes:
DEATH FATE FREE WILL FAMILY
THE SUPERNATURAL TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION
There is the cliché theme:
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.
Choose a theme and find at least two CDs from the text defending that theme.

15. DEATH FATE OR FREE WILL FAMILY THE SUPERNATURAL TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION There is the cliché theme: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.