Read this excerpt from Anne Frank Remembered.Elli Vossen and Jo Koophuis were working across from me in the office. Sometime between eleven and twelve o'clock, I looked up. There in the doorway stood a man in civilian clothes. I hadn't heard the door. He was holding a revolver, pointing it at us. He came in. "Stay put," he said in Dutch. "Don't move." How does Miep build suspense in this passage?
Answer
A
by using the personal pronoun “I” to tell her tale
B
by giving specific details about the time of day
C
by recounting the events as they happened
D
by describing the layout of the building
Explanation
Miep builds suspense by narrating the events in the order she experiences them: she looks up, sees the armed man in the doorway, and then hears his command. This gradual reveal lets the danger unfold moment by moment. The specific time and the first-person “I” provide context, but they do not create the suspense as strongly as recounting the events as they happened.
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