Evaluating suspense
what did you discuss in your response? check all that
apply.
sample response: james baldwin speeds up the
action to create suspense for the reader. by moving the
action forward so quickly, the author leaves the reader
anxious to discover if theseus saves himself and the
other characters from the minotaur.
speeding up the action
causing the reader to be more interested
sequencing events to create suspense
making readers curious about the outcome
placing the characters in a dire setting
done

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.