| A | B |
| huff | temper tantrum |
| disguise | costume worn to hide one's real identity |
| dreary | gloomy |
| plague | disease that infects many people or animals in one area |
| conversation piece | an unusual object that sparks remarks or curiosity |
| moral | the lesson taught by a story or experience |
| compare | tell how things are alike |
| contrast | tell how things are different |
| third-person point of view | story told by someone who isn't one of the characters |
| setting | where and when a story takes place |
| generalization | a broad statement that applies to many examples |
| genre | fairy tale(characters with magical powers,a beautiful girl who needs help, a rich, handsome prince who comes to her rescue) |
| contraction | the shortened form of two words |
| apostrophe | takes the place of the missing letter(s) in a contraction |
| effect | what happens |
| cause | why something happens |
| cause-effect signal words | because, so, therefore, as a result of |