| A | B |
| facades | false appearances |
| congenial | pleasant; agreeable |
| rapacious | greedy |
| tantalizing | tempting |
| emanate | come forth |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot |
| irony | a contrast between expectation and reality |
| verbal irony | a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant |
| situational irony | a contrast between what happens and what was expected to happen in a certain situation |
| dramatic irony | the audience or reader knows something the character does not know |
| suspense | the uncertainty a reader feels about what will happen next in a story |