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Antithetic Parallelism
Type of poetic parallelism in which the second line of a poetic couplet is the opposite of the first line. TERM 2
Call To Praise
DEFINITION 2 A speech-type found in certain biblical psalms in which the psalmist enjoins others to join him in praising God. TERM 3
Climactic Parallelism
DEFINITION 3 The type of poetic parallelism where the second line of a poetic couplet echoes part of the first line and adds a phrase to it, thereby extending and completing its sense. TERM 4
Colon
DEFINITION 4 A single line of poetry, sometimes called a stich or stichos. TERM 5
Complaint
DEFINITION 5 (also called lament) A literary type that expresses the pain and alienation of the writer and asks God for help; complaints are found in psalmic and prophetic literature.
Form Criticism
(also called form analysis) The examination of literary units to discover the typical formal structures and patterns behind the present text in an attempt to recover the original sociological setting or setting-in-life (German Sitz im Leben) of that form of literature. TERM 7
Hymn
DEFINITION 7 A song praising God, the king, Zion, or Torah that contains a description of why the object of praise is wonderful. TERM 8
Invocation
DEFINITION 8 The formula used at the beginning of many psalms that appeals to God and asks him to listen. TERM 9
Lament
DEFINITION 9 A cry of pain and grief; in the study of the Psalms, the lament, also called a complaint, is the literary type that expresses a cry of help, either of an individual or a community. TERM 10
Parallelism
DEFINITION 10 The literary form pervasive in biblical poetry whereby the first line (the A-line) of a couplet is in some way mirrored or doubled in the second line (the B-line).
Synonymous Parallelism
A type of poetic parallelism in which the notion of the first line of a couplet is repeated or seconded in the second line. TERM 17
Thanksgiving
DEFINITION 17 To give thanks to God for his favors; in the study of the Psalms this is a major literary type of psalm that thanks God for individual or corporate deliverance. TERM 18
Vow of Praise
DEFINITION 18 A speech form found in the Psalms where the psalmist promises to credit God with deliverance once it happens.
