| A | B |
| ajar | slightly open |
| beckon | to signal, summon, or direct by gesture of head or hand |
| commence | to begin |
| gnarled | knotty; rough; rugged |
| impromptu | not planned |
| ominous | foreshadowing evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious |
| tentatively | unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant; done as a trial |
| tremor | shaking; any tremulous or vibratory movement; vibration |
| eerie | uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird |
| octave | a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone |
| there | in that place or location |
| their | belonging to them |
| they're | they are |
| simile | comparison of two things using "like" or "as" |
| idiom | a word or a group of words that has a meaning different than the usual meaning of the individual words |
| third person | narrator is NOT in the story |
| first person | the narrator is in the story |
| omniscient | all knowing |
| limited | the narrator only gives the thoughts and feeling of one character in the story |
| dialect | The form of language spoken in a specific place by certain group of people |