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Psalms Structure Dev
Term | Definition |
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acrostic | -literary compositions in which the writer has used the letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the initial letters for a sequence of verses |
repetition | -repeated words, phrases, or ideas within a psalm to create a theme |
stanza / strophe | -the poetic equivalent of the paragraph -can be recognized by features of form as well as content |
refrain | -like a chorus; a line, or set of lines, repeated at least twice that divides the poem into smaller sections |
inclusion / envelope | -repeating similar words at the beginning and end of a poem or section |
chiasm | -a series of nesting inclusions that build toward a central point |
parallelism | -the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter |