Topics: Literature › Poetry
Type: Classification Essays
Sample donated: Margarita Barnes
Last updated: December 3, 2019
Which book is not considered a book of poetry?
Esther
What is the most important feature of Hebrew poetry?
parallelism
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What characteristic of Hebrew poetry is this: “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands” (Ps. 19:1)?
parallelism
“Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth” (Prov. 10:4). This is an example of
antithetic parallelism
Psalm 119 is an example of
acrostic
Hebrew poetry is most similar to poetry written in
Ugaritic
What is the Hebrew word for the Book of Psalms?
Tehillim
Who is the author of the largest number of Psalms?
David
Whom did David appoint as his chief musician?
Asaph
It is thought that Psalm 90 was written by
Moses
How many divisions are in the Book of Psalms?
five
Psalm 41:13, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen and Amen,” is known as
doxology
How has it been possible to identify the divisions in the Book of Psalms?
The last verse of each section is written in a distinctive style
“Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens” (Ps.
8:1) is a verse from a psalm that would be classified as
hymn
“For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me. I confess my iniquity” (Ps. 38:17-18) belongs to the classification of psalms known as
penitential
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good” (Ps.
14:1) is an example of a
wisdom psalm
What is the name for a psalm that calls for God’s judgement on the enemy of the psalmist?
imprecatory
