| A | B |
| brilliant | shining brightly; sparkling |
| chorus | anything spoken or sung all at the same time |
| coward | person who lacks courage or is easily made afraid |
| gleamed | flashed or beamed with light |
| shimmering | gleaming or shining faintly |
| dwells | makes your home; lives |
| reigns | rules, as over a kingdom |
| visualize | to picture in one's mind |
| generalize | to make a broad statement or rule that applies to many examples |
| genre | category of literature to which a book belongs |
| Pourquoi tales | stories that explain how things in nature came to be |