Vocabulary #1

Theme: the main idea

Tone: the quality of the author

Diction: the authors choices words for the story

Syntax: how you organize stories  

Stupid: the lack of common sense  

Adumbrate: report or response in outline

Apotheosis: highest point in the development

Acetic: typically for religious reasons 

Bauble: a small snowy trinhet

Beguile: begin to grow or increase

Complement: competes to bring perfection

Contumacious: stubborn

Curmudgeon: a bad tempered or surly person

Didactic: intended to teach