Question

A storyteller must use dialogue, figurative language, and their voice inflection to embellish their stories to make them interesting.

Based on its use the in the sentence above, what does embellish mean?
A) make (a statement or story) more interesting or entertaining by adding extra details, especially ones that are not true.
B) make (a statement or story) less interesting or entertaining by deleting extra details, especially ones that are not true.
C) add decorations to an object
D) I can't tell from the sentence.

Answer 1

A. Dialogue, figurative language, and a storyteller's voice inflection are all extra details that are added to make a story interesting. "Embellish" in this sentence refers to the act of adding those details, which in turn makes the story more fun to read. The details do not have to be true, they just go over and above the basic story to make it much more interesting than if the details weren't there.