Psalms of thanksgiving are sometimes written to thank God for answering this type of psalm
What is psalms of lament?
100
When Jesus states: "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away..." he is using this type of figurative language
What is hyperbole?
100
Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes all belong to this category of books
What is the Books of Poetry?
200
intentional exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
A poem in which each line of text begins with a letter that - when put together - spells a word or forms a pattern.
What is an acrostic?
200
Psalm 119 is an example of this type of figurative language as each section begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet
What is an acrostic?
200
All suffering may not be a direct result of sin in your own life, but it does find its origin here
What is the sin of Adam/Fall of Man?
200
Though he went through immense suffering and lost nearly everything except for a foolish wife and a few ignorant friends, Job never lost this.
What is his faith in God?
300
Using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
What is irony (sarcasm)?
300
If we want to understand this part of Scripture, we should seek to know the original author of a passage, the audience, and the literary genre.
What is the context?
300
Psalms were typically sang at this event. In fact, Jesus sang with his disciples while celebrating it shortly before being arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane.
What is Passover?
300
This type of psalm often expresses anger, frustration, suffering, sorrow, pain, etc.
What is a psalm of lament
300
This type of figurative language is not a specific promise, but rather a general truth.
What is a proverb?
400
A wise saying
What is a proverb?
400
Describing God in terms of human characteristics
What is anthropomorphism?
400
David's words in Psalm 51 come after this event in his life:
Wash me thoroughly from my inquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
- Psalm 51:2
What is having commmited adultery with Bathsheba?
400
When Jesus tells the Pharisees, "You are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!" He is using this type of figurative language
What is irony/sarcasm?
400
Written composition made of ordinary, matter-of-fact language such as reporting history or a story
What is prose?
500
Two lines of poetic language containing the same or similar ideas.
What is synonymous parallelism?
500
Two lines of poetic language that contains two contrasting ideas; the first line is usually positive and the second line is usually negative
What is antithetical parallelism?
500
Jesus' words on the cross, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)," were a direct reference to this psalm.
What is Psalm 22
500
This person suffered and died so that we could have victory over sin and suffering and have the hope of eternal life and a day when suffering will cease when he redeems the world.
Who is Jesus?
500
The views of Job's ignorant friends are often seen today in the misapplication of this Hindu/Buddhist concept
What is "karma"?
Note: This is often a misunderstood concept as karma actually applies to reincarnation and not the "what goes around comes back around" mentality that Americans often think.