| A | B |
|---|
| avaricious | greedy for riches |
| malign | evil in nature or effect |
| contentedly | expressing happiness and satisfaction |
| talisman | anything believed to have magical powers |
| prosaic | commonplace; ordinary |
| credulity | a tendency to believe anything readily |
| dubiously | hesitatingly |
| mood | the overall atmosphere of a story; the emotions that are evoked by words and descriptions in a literary selection |
| tone | the attitude of a writer toward a subject |
| situational irony | when the outcome of events is different than what is expected and contains contradictions or sharp contrasts |
| verbal irony | when one says the opposite of what one means |
