close call
, close shave , narrow escape , shocker , spine-chiller , white knuckle suspense tension
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anticipation expectancy
nervewracking nailbiting hair raising on end
bloodcurdling alarming chilling horrendous creepy eeery
goosebumpy
parting shot punchline perilous precarious twist stopping point of imminent disaster suspenseful climax
unresolved unfinished
bodice-ripper; cautionary tale; cover story; fable; ghost story
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rebus
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
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abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister,charade, chiller,
, closed book,conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty ,enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle,perplexity poser, problem, puzzlement,question, rebus , riddle, rune, secrecy, , sphinx, stickler,stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut tocrack, twister, whodunit, why*
enigma [uh-nig-muh] Show IPA
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
mystery
Synonyms:
Gordian knot, bewilderment, ,conundrum, crux,
cryptogram, grabber, knot*,mind-boggler, mind-twister, mystification,parable, perplexity, problem, puzzle,puzzlement, puzzler, question, question mark,riddle, secret, sixty-four dollar question, sphinx,sticker, stickler, stumper, teaser, tough nut tocrack, twister, why*
thriller
points of cosmic irony occur, in which fate appears to be playing a cruel joke on some of the characters (some know it as "poetic justice")
juxtaposition is the arrangement of two opposing ideas, characters, objects, etc. side-by-side or in similar narratives for effect
abrupt ending leaving the main characters in a precarious situation
plot twist
Plot twists are often foreshadowed by small clues
An "unseen character" is a recurring stock character who is important to the plot, but usually not shown to the audience
lashbacks are often used to recount events that happened prior to the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory. The technique is used to create suspense in a story, or develop a character. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative
An unreliable narrator is a literary device in which the narrator of a story cannot be trusted. This type of narrator (or narrators) would typically make use of an ellipsis to omit key information
when a twist ending shows the escape was a hallucination experienced in the last moments
of his life
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