| A | B |
| BANISTER | a railing along a staircase & the posts that support it |
| TRUCE | a short stop in fighting |
| PORCELAIN | a kind of hard fine pottery |
| RHYTHMICALLY | in a manner showing a regular or orderly repeating of sounds or movements |
| APOLOGETICALLY | in a regretful way |
| GRUDGED | to be unwilling to give or allow; dislike or anger that has been felt for a long time |
| NARRATOR | a person who tells about events and characters in a story |
| POINT OF VIEW | the viewpoint from which a story is narrated |
| SETTING | the time and place a story happens |
| PLOT | the order in which events happen in a story |