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What is a literary device used to create the feeling of anticipation that something dangerous or risky is about to happen?
• verbal irony
• humor
• dramatic irony
• suspense
• verbal irony
• humor
• dramatic irony
• suspense
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suspense
Suspense is the literary device that builds anxious anticipation that something dangerous or risky may happen. (Dramatic irony can create tension too, but the direct term for that feeling of anticipation is suspense.)
Suspense is the literary device that builds anxious anticipation that something dangerous or risky may happen. (Dramatic irony can create tension too, but the direct term for that feeling of anticipation is suspense.)
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