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Old 07-22-2011, 07:05 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
I've always called it cliffhanging.
Yep.

Cliffhanger or Foreshadowing...but the example is a bit too direct to really be foreshadowing which (at least to me) should be somewhat subtle.

I've always thought of "hook" in an marketing sense or book/chapter opening sense.

Hook the reader in the beginning to keep them on the line. Either as the first part of a chapter/novel or in a query letter or in an advertisement.

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