| A | B |
| intelligent, charming and resourceful | the Baudelaire children |
| had a knack for inventing devices | Violet Baudelaire |
| loved to read about animals | Klaus Baudelaire |
| spoke in unintelligible shreiks and liked to bite things | Sunny Baudelaire |
| told the children their parents had perished | Mr. Poe |
| a distant relative on the family tree but the closest relative geographically | Count Olaf |
| becomes the Baudelaire children's next door neighbor | Justice Strauss |
| carved into Count Olaf's front door | the image of an eye |
| coughs all the time | Mr. Poe |
| an actor by trade | Count Olaf |
| what Violet does when she really wants to think carefully | ties back her hair |
| what sunny left behind so the Poe boys would remember her | teeth marks in thier shoes |