The Art of Suspense and Tension

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Across
  1. 1. Slight or indirect indication or suggestion. (Foreshadowing)
  2. 4. Construct by putting parts or materials together; increase intensity.
  3. 5. Account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment.
  4. 7. Stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or event. (Audience action in suspense)
  5. 10. Experience an emotion or sensation.
  6. 12. Feeling of anxiety or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
  7. 14. Most intense, exciting, or important point of something.
  8. 16. Feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
  9. 18. (As in Ticking ...) Device indicating time, used to create urgency.
  10. 20. Speed at which something happens or develops. (Narrative speed)
Down
  1. 2. (As in Dramatic ...) Audience knows more than characters.
  2. 3. Main sequence of events in a narrative.
  3. 6. Make (previously unknown information) known.
  4. 8. State of mental or emotional strain or suspense.
  5. 9. Unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm.
  6. 11. Person who consumes written text.
  7. 13. Possibility that something unpleasant or unwelcome will happen. (Related to stakes)
  8. 15. Means of capturing attention or interest.
  9. 17. Sequence of continuous action in a narrative.
  10. 19. Possibility of suffering harm or injury.