Annoying
Beautiful
Carefully
The rhetorical device that <span>is used in this excerpt from Mark Twain's "The Danger of Lying in Bed" is anecdote (assuming that your options are allusion, rhetorical question, anecdote, and logic).
There is no allusion to any other text here, so that is not the correct answer. There are also no rhetorical questions - questions that don't need an answer because it is implied. I guess there is logic, but it is not a rhetorical device really. So, I'd choose anecdote, because an anecdote is a short, interesting story from someone's life, as is the case here.</span>
Answer:
To create suspense, writers must reveal details gradually so readers want more.
Explanation:
Lee Child's "A Simple Way to Create Suspense" is an essay where he narrates or rather expressed his take on creating suspense in his works. The essay provides his approach to making a suspenseful work rather than directly approaching the climax in a story.
In the given paragraph from the end of his essay, he states that there are numerous ways to make work interesting. He agrees that <em>"Attractive and sympathetic characters re nice to have; and elaborate and sinister entanglements are satisfying .... [added with] impossible-to-escape pits of despair"</em>. But all these are<em> "luxuries"</em> which provide not enough thrill. Rather, he opines that<em> "the slow unveiling of the final answer" </em>is the basic narrative fuel of any work.
Thus, the <u>central idea of the passage is that writers must reveal details slowly and gradually so that the readers will want more, creating a suspenseful environment.
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I’m getting A or C vibes. But i’m mostly going with C.
