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| Series of related metaphors |
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| A form of overstatement in which literal fullfillment or portrayl is impossible |
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| true-to-life or realistic story told in form of an extended simile, short story, or allegory to teach a spiritual lesson |
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| a statment that appears to be contradictory |
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| a play on words in which one word may have more than one meaning, or two similar-sounding words may be intentionally used to suggest two or more different meanings |
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| a simple statement with a hidden meaning which the hearer must uncover |
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| a figure of speech that compares two things that are essentially like each other |
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| the life stting of a given literary unit in history (e.g. of a parable) |
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| the life setting of the church at the time of composition |
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| the life setting of a stroy or parable in Jesus' day |
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| Allonymity or allepigraphy |
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| the therory that a later author edited what the original author worte while attributing the writing to the original author or writing in another person's name without intent to deceive |
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| scribe or secretary who wrote down the message of the author of an epistle, whether by way of word-by-word dictation or by filling our the sense of the missive |
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| a passage that is difficult to inturpret |
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| exhorts or dissuades the audience regaurding future actions by seeking to show the expediency or lack therof of one's future actions |
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| a technique for anticipating objections to an argument, raising them in the form of a question and then answering them (e.g. Romans 6-7) |
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| indication that author wants to inform his readers about a given subject (e.g. I do not want you to be ignorant) |
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| affirms communal values by praise or blame in order to affect a present evaluation |
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| refutation of the opponents' arguments |
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| introduction defining the character of the speaker and the central issues(s) addressed |
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| Forensic or judicial speech |
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| defends or accuses someone regaurding past actions by seeking to prove that one's actions were just or unjust |
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| rule of equivalence, that is, the principle of Scripture interpreting Scripture |
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| household code delineating the responsibilities of the various members of the ancient household such as wives and husbands, children and parents, and slaves and masters |
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| Jewish commentary-style interpretive practice of infering the circumstances surrounding the writing of a given text from explicit statements made in the text |
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| the (often doubtful) interpretive practice of inferring the circumstances surrounding the writing of a given text from explicit statements made in the text |
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| unit presenting the events related to the central issue |
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| Jewish verse-by-verse commentary |
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| recapitulation of the basic points aimed at evoking a sympathetic response. |
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| confirmation setting forth logical arguments |
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| a summary of the central thesis or theses to be proved |
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| a writing in which a later follower attributed his own work to his revered teacher in order to perpetuate that person's teachings and influence |
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| argument from the lesser to the greater (lit. light and heavy) |
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| Latin for "that which is needed to me demonstrated" |
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| the Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Bible used in the synagogue liturgy |
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| German for "kind of action" |
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| a sentence structure that includes an incomplete thought |
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| Pronouns and other terms reffering back to a previous clause or textual unit |
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| the breaking all of a speech or statement owing to strong emoition, modesty, or other reasons |
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| a writer's choice to present a given action from a particular vantage point |
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| lack of a conjunction at the begining of a sentence |
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| the omission, for the sake of brevity, of an element which is not necessary for the grammatical structure but for the thought |
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| any meaningful cluster of words that include a verb |
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| the cloncluding statement in a given discorse unit |
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| the glue that holds a discourse together |
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| any coherent sequence of phrases or sentences, whether a narative, logical argument, or poetic portion of text |
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| a study of a textual unit for the purpose of discerning various features of the text such as boundary markers, cohesion, prominence, relations, and situatedness |
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| the opening and closing phrases or divices marking the beginning and end of a given discourse unit |
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| a feature by which an incomplete idea requires the reader to supply a missing element which is self-evident |
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| specific features of syntax, such as a certain kind of genitive or participle (form) |
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| Hapax legomenon (pl. hapax legomena) |
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| a word occuring only once in the Old and New Testament |
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| an arrangement of two of more expressions that essentially convey the same idea |
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| implicit yet necessary information for understanding a given discourse |
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| the occurrence of a given word or phrase at the beginning and the end of a discourse unit for the purpose of making this portion of material as a textual unit |
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| an initial marker indicating a boundary feature in a given discourse |
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| unconnected juxtaposition of sentence units or clauses |
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| the height of action reached in a particular discourse unit |
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| any meaningful word cluster that lacks a verb form |
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| a form of redundancy by which a previously expressed idea is repeated as a way of speaking |
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| elements in a discouse that stand out, be it by way of natural or marked prominence |
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| various ways in which satements or propositions are conjoined in a given text |
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| concerned with the meaning of individual words based on the recognition that word meaning is to be discerned in context |
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| any complete thought expressed in form of one or several independent clauses |
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| the real life-setting of a given discourse |
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| The presentation of setting of a given action or event |
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| refers more broadly to relationships between words in the larger scheme of discourses and sentence structures |
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| mention of a topic at the end or a section to be developed in the following unit |
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| discourse structure as conveyed by various discourse features per discourse analysis |
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| a special type of ellipsis in which a different verb is to be supplied |
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| the meaning added to the lexical meaning or denotation by the context |
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| the "dictionary" definition of a word apart from a particular context |
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| the study of language "over time" |
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| the root (i.e. original) meaning of the word |
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| Illegitimate totality transfer |
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| the improper assumption that a word in a given context means everything the word can mean in a variety of different contexts |
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| a word's meaning as listed in a dictionary |
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| the study of the nature of language |
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| the adducing of parallels of questionable value |
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| the linguistic procedure by which a word points to an extratextual object |
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| the object to which a word points |
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| the imposition of the later meaning of a word onto earlier uses |
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| a group of words that are related in meaning |
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| the study of the meaning of a word and related words |
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| rendering a word with a meaning it once possessed but that ahs since fallen into disuse |
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| the variety of meanings of which a word is capable in different contexts |
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| the science of determining meaning |
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| the meaning of a word in context including the word's connotation |
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| the study of language "together with" (i.e. at the same) time |
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| the ascription of human characteristics to God |
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| the ascription of human emotions to God |
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| direct contrast, terms set in opposition to each other |
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| direct address to imaginary object or person, or to an object or person not present |
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| figure of speech based on association, not similarity; in figures of contiguity, there is a logical comparison between the terms of the figure; metonymy and synecdoche are figures of contiguity |
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| Epizeuxis or Epanadiplosis |
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| repetition of a significant word for emphasis |
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| substitution of a less offensive or explicit term for a stronger term |
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| any use of language in which two terms are compared or brought into some relationship other than, or in addition to, a literal or logical connection; any use of language in which one term is spoken of in language suggestive of the other term |
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| figure of speech in which the comparison is implied by direct naming |
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| device in which the writer states the opposite of what is intended |
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| deliberate understatement for effect |
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| type of synecdoche in which the whole is suggested by contrasting parts |
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| figure of speech in which one term is imaginatively identified with another, or in which one object represents another object or idea |
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| substitution of one word for another |
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| similar sounding words placed side by side for emphasis |
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| Personification (also Prosopopoeia) |
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| type of metaphor in which human characteristics are ascribed to inanimate objects, animals, or other non-human beings |
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| figure of speech based on comparison apart from any logical connection between the terms; figure of similarity include simile, metaphor, image and symbol |
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| simple comparison, usually linked by "like" or "as" |
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| type of metaphor in which the vehicle, as well as the tenor, is broadly suggestive of itself |
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| figure of speech in which a part represents the whole |
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| underlying subject in a figure of speech |
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| subject of a figure of speech; there are two terms in a figure of speech, the "vehicle" and "tenor" |
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| mode in which the tenor is experienced |
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| an authorially intended reference to a preceding text of Scripture involving verbal or , at a minimum, conceptual similarity |
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| a later pattern of God's dealing with his people that corresponds to an earlier instance |
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| specific ways in which the Old Testament is appropriated by a New Testament writer as part of his theological argument |
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| a discipline of biblical study which seeks to investigate Scripture as originally given in its historical context and in its own terms (in distinction from Systematic theology) |
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| an explicit, verbatim citation of an Old Testament passage, usually fronted by an introductory formula (in distinction to Allusions or Echoes) |
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| older (German) term for "systematic theology" |
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| an authorially intended reference to a preceding text of Scripture which exhibits a proportionately lesser degree of verbal similarity than an allusion |
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| an underlying assumption which leads a New Testament writer to use an Old Testament passage in a certain way (e.g., Jesus is the Messiah) |
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| a phrase preceding a direct Old Testament quotation in the New Testament, such as "it is written" |
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| a phenomenon by which an Old Testament prediction is fulfilled in the New Testament |
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| a form of presentation of biblical teaching which is essentially topical in nature (in distinction from Biblical theology) |
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| an instance of a historical person, event, or institution that exhibits a pattern of God's dealings with his people in salvation history |
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| an escalating pattern in salvation history in which a later anti-type is found to correspond to one-or several original types |
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| group of proverbs that contain a common catchword |
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| proverbs grouped in an A-B-B-A pattern |
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| type of writing that explicates a thesis or defends and argument |
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| type of writing in which the writer is suggesting or commanding an action the reader should take |
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| group of proverbs bracketed by an inclusion, in which the first and last proverb are similar or contain common catchwords |
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| proverbs grouped in an A-B-A-B pattern |
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| method of application that seeks to understand the principle underlying the biblical text in order to apply it properly to the reader's present context |
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| type of writing in which the writer provides step-by-step directions |
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| group of proverbs that maintain a common theme, dealing with the same subject matter |
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