Plot device in which dramatic tension is left unresolved at the end of an episode of serialized fiction to entice the audience to return.
1He then cleared out of his fiancee's apartment in a cliffhanger ending.
2The novel's bleak, cliffhanger ending shocked a generation of American teenagers.
3After all, that cliffhanger ending dictates it so.
4Nothing stuns an audience like a cliffhanger ending, but suspense is the last thing investors and the US treasury want from Washington.
5JR Ewing (Larry Hagman), the brother everyone loved to hate on the soapie Dallas was shot in the cliffhanger ending.
6And if, like me, they are surprised by the abrupt nature of the cliffhanger ending, at least they'll know there's another volume to come.
7The unusual tactic framed the scope of Razor: The movie-length episode had to work on its own, and couldn't spoil season three's cliffhanger ending.
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