A surprise causes someone to experience a sudden emotion.
The term surprise refers to the act and result of surprising . This verb , for its part, refers to generating astonishment , causing impact or causing confusion by showing or revealing something that was hidden, strange or unexpected.
Surprise is also what makes a person surprised. For example: “My mother promised me a surprise gift for my birthday,” “It was a surprise to have found Matilde in the shopping center,” “The statements of the team's coach generated surprise among journalists.”
a sudden emotion
It can be said that a surprise is a sudden emotion that arises from an event that was not anticipated. Surprises can be pleasant, negative or have no value, depending on the context .
Take the case of a woman who, upon arriving home, finds on her bed a bouquet of flowers and tickets to travel to the Caribbean along with a note from her husband, who greets her on a wedding anniversary . In this case, the surprise generates satisfaction for the surprised person.
On the other hand, if a man leaves the office and discovers that his car has been stolen , he will experience a negative surprise: the impact of the news will only provoke unpleasant feelings.
There can also be surprises that are neutral in the mood. If a person enters a business and finds out that the employee who usually assists them has resigned since he moved to another city, they may be surprised without making any particular assessment of the news.
The surprise can be a material gift.
Surprise as a material object
Beyond emotion or feeling, a material object can be called surprise: “Have you seen the surprise I left for you on the table?” .
In this case, the term surprise can be used as a synonym for gift or present , although it has this unexpected nature on the part of the recipient, something that is not always the case when receiving something from another person. Likewise, a surprise of this type is almost always positive.
For a surprise gift to be considered negative, it would have to be a very particular situation in which the person giving it wants to take revenge on the recipient or hurt their feelings for a specific reason. If you were to say the same words we saw in the previous example to indicate that you have left it on the table, you would be using a sarcastic tone with the desire to see a feeling of displeasure, fear or another negative state on your face.
A type of effect
There is the concept of surprise effect , which is defined as a tool that is applied intentionally to generate surprise in the recipient of a message. This can be applied in a large number of areas, ranging from education to the market. In the first case, it is considered especially useful to maintain the attention of younger students or adolescents, ages at which it is usually more difficult to concentrate on teachers' explanations given the changes that take place in our body and our emotional development.
Through the surprise effect, which can be achieved in different ways, it is possible to generate different turning points throughout a lesson that force students to pay attention to the presentation spontaneously . Suppose that in the middle of an ancient history class the teacher makes a comparison between a character from the past and one from current popular culture; Surely, students will be surprised by such a connection and this will lead them to wait for the next one.
In the case of the market, the surprise effect is necessary to break the monotony that usually generates the demand for similar products every year. Mobile telephony is an area in which it is especially useful every certain amount of time to regain public interest .