Poetical Books-General
Types of Hebrew Poetry
Literary Techniques
Literary Techniques
Literary Techniques
100
The Poetical Books follow these 17 books in the Old Testament.
What are the Historical Books?
100
The number of major types of Hebrew poetry.
What is 3?
100
The two main literary techniques.
What are parallelism and figures of speech?
100
In this type of parallelism, the second thought contrasts with the first.
What is antithetic parallelism?
100
This is a deliberate overstatement for the sake of emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
200
The number of poetical books.
What are 5?
200
This type of poetry is to be accompanied by music, like a song.
What is lyric poetry?
200
This is the technique of matching ideas rather than matching sounds.
What is parallelism?
200
In this type of parallelism, the second line repeats the first with the exception of the last word or words.
What is climactic parallelism?
200
This is asking a question for the purpose of making a statement.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
The time of events in this book is when Job was written.
What is Genesis?
300
This type of poetry teaches principles of living through pithy maxims.
What is instructional poetry?
300
This type of parallelism presents similar ideas.
What is synonymous parallelism?
300
Figures of speech create visual ___?
What are images?
300
This is assigning the characteristics of a human to a lifeless object.
What is personification?
400
Palms was written during the life of this person in 2 Samuel.
What is David?
400
This type of poetry is a narrative that tells a story in poetic form.
What is dramatic poetry?
400
In this type of parallelism the second thought completes the first thought.
What is synthetic parallelism?
400
This is a comparison between two unlike things.
What is a simile?
400
The verse "Every night I make my bed swim, I dissolve my couch with my tears" is am example of this figure of speech.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon were written during the lifetime of this person in the time covered in 1 Kings.
What is Solomon.
500
The 3 major types of Hebrew poetry.
What are lyric, instructional, dramatic poetry?
500
In this type of parallelism, the first line uses a figure of speech to illustrate the idea stated in the second line.
What is emblematic parallelism?
500
This is a comparison in which one thing is said to be another.
What is a metaphor?
500
The verse, "The Lord is my shepherd" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
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