Vocab - Fall

Theme: The central or main idea of a text.
Tone: Author's attitude towards subject, characters and audience.
Mood: Readers emotion
Diction: The choice and use of words by author.  Speech or writing.
Syntax: The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences.   

Stupid: Showing a lack of intelligence .
Adumbrate:  Report or represent in outline.
Apotheosis : Development of something: climax. 
Ascetic :  Practice of severe self-discipline and abstention.
Bauble : A small, showy trinket or decoration.
Beguile : Charm or enchant.
Burgeon:  Grow or increase rapidly;
Complement :  One or more words, phrases, or clauses governed by a verb; fill up; perfection
Contumacious: Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.
Curmudgeon : A bad-tempered or surly person.

Didactic: Intended to teach; to treat someone in a patronizing way.