Creative Writing Techniques to Create a Tense Mood

Techniques:

• silence
• cyclical ending
• violence
• foreshadowing
• metaphors
• similes
• harsh sounding language
• reader omniscience
• symbolism
• pathetic fallacy
• flashbacks/flashforwards
• rhetorical questions
• cliff hanger

Sentence Openers:
Start with an adverb (unsteadily, she climbed over the fence)
Indicate the location (along the canal towpath, the girl ambled slowly)
Use an ending in…