What effect does suspense typically have on a reader? Check the four best answers.

Suspense can create a physical thrill, such as “shivers down the spine,” and make a reader feel torn between continuing and stopping because they want to know what happens but feel anxious. It can also make frightening or gruesome material pleasurable, since the reader experiences it as fiction, and create excitement from knowing they are safe. Suspense does not typically make readers confident that everything will work out or convince them that the narrator is unreliable.

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