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What is an aphorism?

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A terse formulation of a truth

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What is an epigram?

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a terse, sage, witty, and often paradoxical saying

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Simile

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an explicit, evocative, comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common

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Metaphor:

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an implicit, evocative comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common

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Allegory:

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an extended metaphor

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Anthropopathism:

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ascribing human feelings, motives, or behavior to God

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Anthropomorphism:

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ascribing human physical features to the spiritual God

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Synecdoche:

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stating a part to represent the whole

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Metonymy:

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referring to something by using an associated item (27:24, 6:17). Crown refers to kingship and tongue and hands refer to a person’s speech and deeds.

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Personification:

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attributing human qualities to what is not human

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Hyperbole:

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overstatement (30:3). Agur claims he is too stupid to be considered a human being.

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Litotes:

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understatement. A lessening of something to increase it (10:19).

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Irony:

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saying one thing but intending the opposite, usually with sarcasm (31:6). Give free beer to the poor in 31:6 is an irony to devalue liquor. In 19:27, Solomon says: Cease, my son, listening to instruction to stray from words of knowledge. Of course he means the opposite. Most English translations render the proverb in such a way as to interpret the irony so it is missed by the reader.

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“Proverb.”

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a short pithy saying, usually containing two lines of poetry.