Terms
AP
Bonus
100
The characteristic of emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience. 
What is Tone?
100
The main idea of a piece of writing. 
What is Thesis?
100
The layer around earth where all the weathering comes from.
What is Troposphere?
200
Word order; the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. 
What is Syntax?
200
A rhetorical discourse in which certain premises have been made and something other than these premises follows as a result.
What is Syllogism?
200
The greatest genre of music. 
What is 90's Music?
300
A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence or paragraph to paragraph.
What is Transition?
300
The opposite of exaggeration.
What is Understatement?
300
It increases heart rates, dilates pupils, is very addictive but can lead to death. 
What is Crack?
400
An unbiased and non-judgmental presentation of events and characters. 
What is Objectivity?
400
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a facet of personality.
What is Caricature?
400
A personal presentation of events and characters influenced by the author's feelings and opinions. 
What is Subjectivity?
500
A natural, seemingly effortless presentation or performance; the art of making a difficult task seem easy.
What is Sprezzatura?
500
A fallacy that builds up a simplified an illogical or damaged assertion that one presents as something that one's opposition supports or represents; then proceeds to attack this idea, and thus, one's opponent. 
What is Straw Man?
500
A question posted that requires no answer; nor is one expected, used solely for effect.
What is Rhetorical Question?