Highlight the text that creates suspense.
But on the morning after, when firstlight
had banished night's bright star-fires from the sky
and sun had left the brine-soaked meadows dry,
again they took their places at the cleft.
Then, in low whispers – after their laments –
those two devised this plan.
—"Pyramus and Thisbe,"
Ovid
Choose the text that creates suspense by causing the reader to wonder what will happen next.
"But on the morning after"
"and sun had left the brine-soaked meadows dry"
“again they took their places at the cleft”
“those two devised this plan”