/e/ is a short single sound that is pronounced without your mouth moving, whereas /eɪ/ is a diphthong (a merging of two sounds) and your mouth gets smaller as you are making the sound.
Elementary- bed - bade*
- bread - braid*
- fess*- face
- get - gate*
- kecks* - cakes
- pet - pate*
- tech* - take
- well - whale*
- wet - wait
- when - wane*
- wren* - rain
- best - based*
- edge* - age
- fell - fail
- let - late
- men - main*
- met - mate*
- pen - pain
- pent* - paint
- pled* - played
- rest - raced
- sell - sale
- set - sate*
- sex - sakes*
- special - spatial*
- test - taste
- west - waist
- beck* - bake
- bell - bail*
- bet - bait*
- chess - chase
- debt - date
- fem* - fame
- gel - jail
- led - laid
- lens - lanes
- shell shale*
- tell - tale
- tent - taint*
- trend - trained
- wedge* - wage
- bled - blade
- breast - braced
- fed fade
- fez* - phase
- fret - freight
- hell - hail
- less - lace*
- mess - mace*
- phlegm* - flame
- red - raid
- sent - saint
- shed - shade
- sped - spade
- tread trade
- wed - wade
- wreck - rake
- betted - bated
- dell - dale
- den - deign
- fen - feign
- fend - feigned
- fleck - flake
- fled - flayed
- heck - hake
- hex - hakes
- ken - cane
- lest - laced
- pest - paste
- rend - rained
- stead - stayed
- vend - veined
- wend - waned
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