Answer:
there are three situations a writer can create in order to cultivate dramatic tension and to get readers anticipating change: mystery, suspense, and dramatic irony.
mystery
When the audience knows less than the characters do, we have a “mystery” situation. What does this look like? Pick up any book you have lying around, and the read the first page. You’re bound to see some mystery. mystery draws us in. We read on because we want to catch up with what the characters in the story already know.
suspense
Suspense occurs when the audience knows as much as the characters. They don’t know what’s going to happen and neither do we. We thus co-experience their unknowingness and read on not only out of curiosity but also concern.
dramatic irony
The final situation is the dramatic irony situation. In dramatic irony, we know more than the character. In dramatic irony, it’s not curiosity that we feel. It’s concern alone.
so Mystery, suspense, and dramatic irony are the tools writers use to create tension and thus to pull readers into the story. Knowing how to create tension ranks up there as one of the most important skills for anyone writing stories.