My vocab                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Theme: central/main idea  

Tone: the authors attitude toward the subject

Mood: emotion we feel

Diction: words

Syntax: the way the author puts the words

Stupid: no intelligence or common sense

Adumbrate: foreshadow vaguely

Ascetic: perfect example of something

Bauble: cheap showy object

Beguile: make someone attracted to you

Burgeon: blossom/grow

Complement: adding last few things

Contumacious: stubborn/disobedient

Curmudgeon: old, cranky, and bad temper

Didactic: to teach