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  4. Each answer for numbers 1 through 25 is worth four points. An extra credit question at the end is worth up to 10 points depending on the quality of the answer. A perfect score is considered to be 100.

Matching section:

Select the best answer from the choices available on the left.

  1. The usual or primary meaning of a word.
  2. A departure from the usual or primary meaning of a phrase.
  3. A phrase where one thing is likened to another by using adverbs of comparison. Ex. Taking this test is like playing Monopoly.
  4. A word or phrase where one thing is identified as another without the use of adverbs of comparison. Ex. This test is a piece of cake.
  5. The most common figure of speech in the Bible.
  6. A figure in which one thing is said, but another thing is meant.
  7. A figure in which the actual meaning is exaggerated, usually enormously.
  8. In this figure a part is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the definite for the indefinite, singular for the plural, or some other similar substitution.

  9. The use of a question not to solicit information, but to impart information. Also called a rhetorical question.

  10. A figure of speech where a word or phrase necessary for understanding is omitted. (In this figure the reader is expected to supply the necessary words in his understanding.)

  11. A figure whereby human characteristics are given to God.

  12. A figure in which a person or thing is spoken to as if that person or thing were present, when in fact that is not the case. Ex. "O death, where is thy victory."

  13. A short pithy statement.

  14. A figure taken from real life; a short story intended to convey a moral truth.

  15. An extended metaphor.

  16. A figure where something or someone is referred to by a name it was to acquire only later in history. Ex. The first president of the United States fought against the British at Trenton.

  17. Hebrew poetry uses this figure of speech.

  18. A figure in which personal characteristics are given to inanimate objects. Ex. The stones will cry out when I finish this test!

  19. An extended simile.

  20. A fictitious story ascribing human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals in order to promote some moral truth or precept.

Identify the Figure:

  1. "Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow."
  2. "But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear."
  3. "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear."
  4. "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
  5. "But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up."

Extra Credit:

Identify and explain one reason for interpreting a passage figuratively rather than literally.

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