Vase paintings show boys sitting on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf shape at the other.

–The Ancient City,
Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge

Read the passage, then use the drop-down menus to complete the sentences.

A stylus is a ............*fill in blank*

a.vase painting
b.wax tablet
c.bone or metal pencil
d.leaf shape

A(n)................. *fill in blank* clue shows the meaning of the word stylus.

a. definition
b.example
c.synonym
d.antonym