Definition of 'succumb'. succumb. If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong. Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette. The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
Often by placing their characters in jeopardy. Here are some things that create suspense: 1  when the reader knows something the characters don't. 2  when the reader doesn't know something the characters do.  when the reader knows something is going to happen, but doesn't know what it will be.
Then the story moves into the rising action: the part where the plot thickens. If the author has done his job, the reader is so intrigued with what will happen to the characters, that he can in no way stop reading. The author builds more and more suspense to keep the reader's interest. Suspense is a feeling of anxiety or anticipation. In literature, authors use that anxiety to make readers concerned about characters with whom they have formed sympathetic attachments.