Vocabulary List #1

Theme- The central message of a story

Tone- The Arthur's attitude towards a story or text

Mood- how about the readers feel when they're reading

Diction- Choice of words to tell a story

Syntax- The way the words were put together

Stupid- not thinking

Adumbrate- to show and tell

Apotheosis- The highest point of making something

Ascetic- self-taught of discipline

Bauble- A little touch up

Beguile- to attract someone

Burgeon- to grow fast

Complement- something to make it complete

Contumacious- being stubbornly perverse or rebellious

Curmudgeon- having bad self control

Didactic- to teach or telling instructions