Hebrew Lit Quiz English II Honors

Parallelism

Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other

What are the three types of parallelism?

addition, negation, repetition

Archetypal Setting

a setting representing something that occurs over and over again in literature

Chronological Order

(Time Order) Events are arranged in the order in which they happened

Tone

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Epithet

A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something

Metaphor

A comparison without using like or as

Alliteration

Repetition of consonant sounds

Hyperbole

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Genre

a major category or type of literature

historical nonfiction

a genre of writing that tells about real people or events from the past

autobiography

writing about a person's life written by that person

poetry

A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

Covenant

A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made.

enmity

hatred, ill-will

frivolous

Lacking in seriousness or importance

virtuous

having excellent morals; righteous

gullible

easily deceived or fooled

naive

innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience

"in kind" (from Psalm 137)

the same way

types of parallelism that contrasts

negating

the serpent's punishment: he must ________ forever

crawl

empty space before creation of the world

void

a novel is always this

fiction

word to describe Noah

obedient

archetype of the Garden of Eden

paradise

symbol of temptation: tricked Eve

serpent

Ancient Hebrews were this

monotheistic

type of parallelism that elaborates

adding

what God does on the seventh day of creation

rest

word to describe serpent: clever

shrewd

archetype that connects heaven and earth when Eve eats the fruit

tree

archetypal setting during hte flood

boat

archetype that comes out of the water at the end of the flood

land

word to describe Adam and Eve in the garden

gullible

God tells Adam he will do this to get food

sweat

hostility synonym

enmity

The technique used in "Wherever you go, I will go"

parallelism

pact or agreement

covenant

main metaphor of Psalm 23

shepherd

God's reason for the flood was human ______

wickedness

why God sends the Flood

punishment

archetypal setting of light/dark, earth/sky

opposites

God felt this toward Adam and Eve

anger

symbol of God's covenant to never against destroy humanity

rainbow

meaning of hte word "psalm"

song