The correct revision that changes the underlined phrase to correctly use the past tense is:
• developed and changed.
Many people define horror by its subjects. We all think of creatures like Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the wolfman as monsters in the horror genre. Each one of these creatures has a history and developed over a period of time.
But we also know that horror covers more than just these monsters. We could all make long lists of the kind of creatures we identify with horror, especially when we think of films as well as literature. The minute we would start to make such a list we would also realize that not all monsters are alike and that not all horror deals with monsters. The subject approach is not the clearest way to define this genre.
2 Some students of this genre find that the best way to examine it is to deal with the way horror fiction is organized or structured. Examining the organization of a horror story shows that it shares certain traits with other types of fiction.
Horror stories share the use of suspense as a tactic with many other kinds of literature. The tension we feel when a character goes into the attic, down into the basement, or just into the abandoned house is partially a result of suspense. We don't know what is going to happen. But that suspense is intensified by our knowledge of the genre. We know that characters involved in the world of horror always meet something awful when they go where they shouldn't. Part of the tension is.
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Read the sentence from a student's analysis of "What Is the Horror Genre?"
• Sharon A. Russell explains what the horror genre is and how it develop and change over time.
Which of the following revisions changes the underlined phrase so that it correctly uses the past tense?
• developed and changed
• developed and changes
develops and changed
• develops and changes.
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