cliffhanger

«cliffhanger» in Mova's school dictionary: an exciting ending to a chapter or episode that leaves… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cliffhanger, cliffhangers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cliffhanger is an exciting ending to a chapter or episode that leaves you not knowing what will happen next, so you want to read or watch more. tree →

2) A cliffhanger is also any contest or situation where the result stays uncertain until the very end. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons on writing stories and suspense: end a chapter with a cliffhanger; in TV series and books; in sport, a close game; it tells the reader to keep going.

examples

• The chapter ended on a cliffhanger. tree →
• I couldn't stop reading because of the cliffhangers. tree →
• The match was a real cliffhanger until the final whistle. tree →
• Write a cliffhanger to end your story's middle part. tree →
• The TV series always ends with a cliffhanger. tree →

note

Countable. One word. The idea comes from old stories where the hero was left hanging from a cliff at the end of an episode.

In the corpora

• A cliffhanger ends a chapter or episode at a tense moment, so the reader must read on.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cliffhanger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.