AP Literature Vocab 10 Flashcards

4758391959	Hero/ Heroine	main character who has strength or moral character, a noble cause	0
4758391960	Heroic Couplet	two successive lines of rhymed poetry in iambic pentameter	1
4758391961	Homily	a long speech denouncing someone or something; a story or lecture on a religious or moral theme; a didactic lecture	2
4758391962	Hubris	the pride or overconfidence which often leads a hero to overlook divine warning or to break a moral law	3
4758391963	Humor	writing whose purpose it is to evoke some kind of laughter	4
4758391964	Hyperbole	exaggeration for effect and emphasis, overstatement; figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration occurs	5
4758391965	Iambic Pentameter	A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. (An iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, i.e. "away.")	6
4758391966	Idiom	expressions that do not translate exactly into what a speaker means; idioms are culturally relevant; when a person uses an idiomatic expression, he or she truly "thinks" in the language.	7
4758391967	In medias res	When an author begins a story in the middle	8
4758391968	Internal Rhyme	rhyming within lines of verse instead of at the ends of lines	9