| A | B |
|---|
| suffused | spread over |
| subterfuge | a deceptive action |
| predicated | practiced |
| impelled | driven to do something |
| abstracted | absentminded |
| anomalous | different from normal |
| vermillion | reddish orange |
| tweed | woolen fabric |
| conservative | traditional |
| lithe | flexible, graceful |
| exposition | introduction to the story |
| rising action | series of events that lead to the climax of a story |
| climax | point of the highest suspense in the story |
| falling action | describes the results of earlier events in a story |
| resolution | the part of the story where the conflicts are settled |
| first person point of view | the narrator of the story is one of the characters |
| setting | the time and place the story happens |
| theme | the main idea of a story |
| internal conflict | a struggle within the main character |
| external conflict | the struggle of the main character against an outside force |
| mood | an emotion a story creates in the reader |
| character | a person in a novel or short story |
