Hebrew poetry Flashcards
1
Q
are typical features of poetry present in Hebrew poetry?
A
no, they are not
2
Q
features that distinguish Hebrew poetry from prose
A
economy of language, density of metaphors/wordplay, literary devices, and parallelism
3
Q
a scholar proposed that Hebrew poetry is characterized by:
A
couplets (or sometimes triplets) in three types of arrangements
4
Q
three arrangements of Hebrew poetry
A
Synonymous Parallelism (restatement), Antithetical Parallelism (contrasting), and Synthetic Parallelism (casual, sequential, shared theme/motif)
5
Q
in Hebrew poetry, the second or third line is often:
A
an intensification of the first
