And Then There Were None - Spring Lake Park Schools

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 Analyzing

suspense to determine the climax in the story’s plot.

 The

point in a story that creates the greatest suspense and interest.

 At

the climax, something happens that reveals how the conflict will turn out.

 The

uncertainty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next in a story, novel, or drama.

 Authors

create suspense through sensory details, foreshadowing, unexpected twists, change in plot direction, etc.

 The

main conflict in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle was Charlotte not knowing who to trust.

 Therefore, the

part in the climax of story that reveals that she has decided who to trust is…?

 What

is the main conflict of this story?

 UN

Owen gathering the strangers to murder them as punishment for their past crimes.

 What

needs to be resolved? Is he going to be successful at killing off all of the accused. Will he get away with it?  Then what event reveals the outcome of the conflict?