| A | B |
| receding | ”moving into the distance” |
| disarming | ”removing suspicion or fear” |
| imprudent | ”unwise; foolish” |
| invariably | ”without exception” |
| plot | ”series of events” |
| conflict | ”struggle between opposing characters” |
| “internal conflict” | ”a character’s emotional struggle within his or her own mind” |
| “external conflict” | ”when an outside force prevents a character from achieving his or her goal” |
| flashback | ”a scene that presents events that happened before the main time frame of a story” |
| foreshadowing | ”the use of clues to hint at what will happen later in a story” |
| suspense | ”the feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about what is going to happen next” |
| prediction | ”a guess based on evidence about what is going to happen next” |
| inference | ”an educated guess based on what is implied in the text |
| visualize | ”create mental images of the story’s events |
| sensory details | ”descriptions of how something looks |