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Mystery Vocabulary!
mystery words plus six elements of a mystery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| breakthrough | an advance or discovery that helps solve a crime. |
| clue | a fact or object that helps solve mysteries. |
| crime | an act committed in violation of the law. |
| deduce | to infer by logical reasoning |
| deduction | collecting the facts and drawing a possible conclusion. |
| detective | a person who investigates crimes and gathers information and evidence |
| hunch | a guess or feeling not based on known facts. |
| motive | an inner drive that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way. |
| mystery | something that is secret and unknown. |
| plot | the arrangements of incidents in a story. includes strange or peculiar happenings. |
| red herring | a false lead that throws the investigator off track. It is used to divert attention from the basic issue. |
| setting | the time, place, environment and surrounding circumstances of a story |
| sleuth | an investigator or detective |
| suspects | people who appear to have a motive to have committed the crime. |
| victim | someone who is harmed or suffers some loss |
| witness | someone who saw or can give a firsthand account of something |
| conflict | Mysteries include a problem for the main character to solve. Most often the main conflict in a mystery id external- man vs. man. |
| clues | the writer gives hints or signs to help the reader solve the problem. |
| mood | setting, events and characters are used to create the feeling of suspense. |
| characters | the story involves at least one mysterious or puzzling character. |
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