Question

Review the paragraph from the article "A Simple Way to Create Suspense."


Readers are human, and humans seem programmed to wait for answers to questions they witness being asked. I learned that fact in my first job. I worked in television production from 1977 until 1995, and the business changed radically during that time, mainly because of one particular invention. It was something that almost no one had in 1980, and that almost everyone had in 1990, and it changed the game forever. We had to cope with it. We had to invent a solution to the serious problem it posed.

In this paragraph, the author uses an

analogy.
anecdote.
example.
elective.

Answer 1

anecdote.

The author recounts a personal experience from their first job in television to illustrate the point—this brief personal story is an anecdote.