A It gives the actors time to explain things about their characters that we may not know.

B It helps the audience understand the transitions from scene to scene to reduce confusion.

C It provides the audience with key information about something the characters don’t know.

A comedies

B dramas

C suspense or horror

D all of the above

A A ghost urging a character to commit murder

B A clueless character walking into a dark room where we know someone is hiding

C A witch putting a spell on a character

A the characters know something we don’t know and use this information to build suspense

B what we suspect will happen does, which builds suspense

C the audience knows something before the character(s) do(es), which builds suspense