Without knowing which literature works that your teacher has assigned to be read throughout the semester, this is a tough question. I'll attempt to answer it by using some fairly common works and authors.
Pick just about any short story by Edgar Allen Poe. They are loaded with suspense. Will the narrator in "The Pit and Pendulum" die? How will he die? Why is he there? What torture will be next? All of those...
Without knowing which literature works that your teacher has assigned to be read throughout the semester, this is a tough question. I'll attempt to answer it by using some fairly common works and authors.
Pick just about any short story by Edgar Allen Poe. They are loaded with suspense. Will the narrator in "The Pit and Pendulum" die? How will he die? Why is he there? What torture will be next? All of those questions add suspense for the reader. That's mainly what suspense is too. Suspense needs the reader to worry and question what is happening and what will happen to liked characters.
Stephen Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon" works too. Why has so much knowledge been lost. Why is metal dangerous? John isn't supposed to go to the "Place of the Gods," but he does anyway. Something bad is likely to happen. And he does indeed get attacked a few times by wild animals.
Huck and Jim's multiple encounters with seedy characters are all suspenseful. 1984's rat torture scene was crazy suspenseful. The undead sailors on the ship in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are quite creepy and suspenseful. Macbeth's murder of Duncan is a good choice too, especially since moments before Macbeth said that he wouldn't do it. Simon's death and Piggy's death from Lord of the Flies are both fingernail bitingly intense as well. What makes those scenes even worse is that the well liked characters are the ones that die.
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