Question

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

Answer 1

A stylus is a bone or metal pencil

A(n) Definition

Step-by-step explanation:

if you read closely you can see it tells you the definition in the passage.

Answer 2

Answer: A stylus is a bone or metal pencil.

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt provided is from the novel ‘The Ancient City’ by Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge which is a story about the life in classical Athens and Rome.

From the excerpt we can see that there’s an inclusion of the word ‘stylus.’ Stylus is basically a writing tool with the help of which marking are done and it also helps in shaping. In ancient time when the painter used to paint anything, he made use of stylus to give that painting a perfect form and shape.