Which best describes how the pacing of events heightens tension?

the group of friends has a fixed amount of time to finish painting the stars in terry’s room.
the group of friends must finish painting the stars while terry waits downstairs with her mother.
the group of friends wants to leave terry’s house after they finish painting stars in her room.
the group of friends do not think they can finish painting the stars before terry returns.

The group of friends do not think they can finish painting the stars before Terry returns. I think this sentence heightens the tension the most since it is uncertain when Terry will return so there will probably a tendency for them to rush so they can finish the stars before that happens.

Transition words are words like first, furthermore, besides, for instance, secondly, as a result using words like those should you write paragraphs showing time. you can start with first and then end with lastly or as a result

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form