The sentence that advances the plot in creates tension in the excerpt is "'If you mean that in earnest,' said the young man, 'I'll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years.'" (Paragraph 7)
In the bet by Anton Chekhov , tension was created as a result of how he proposed to stay for 15 years instead of 5 years after taken the bet.
Tension which can be regarded as a literary term do shows the uneasy as well as the , unbalance in the way the characters in the excerpt are behaving.
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