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* a. vase painting b. wax tablet c. bone or metal pencil a(*fill in* clue shows the meaning of the word stylus. a. definition b. example c. synonym d. antonym