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  2. Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).

  3. Biblical hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible.It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation, both theory and methodology, for all nonverbal and verbal communication forms. [1]

  4. Biblical genre - Wikipedia

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    A Biblical genre is a classification of Bible literature according to literary genre. [1] The genre of a particular Bible passage is ordinarily identified by analysis of its general writing style, tone, form, structure, literary technique, content, design, and related linguistic factors; texts that exhibit a common set of literary features (very often in keeping with the writing styles of the ...

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Synecdoche: form of metonymy, referring to a part by its whole, or a whole by its part. Synesthesia: description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another. Tautology: superfluous repetition of the same sense in different words Example: The children gathered in a round circle

  6. Category:Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... hide. Help. Pages in category "Synecdoche" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total ...

  7. Pars pro toto - Wikipedia

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    It is a form of synecdoche, which can refer both to pars pro toto and its inverse, totum pro parte (Latin for 'the whole for a part'). In the context of language, pars pro toto means that something is named after a part or subset of it or after a limited characteristic, which in itself is not necessarily representative of the whole.

  8. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.

  9. Bible in Basic English - Wikipedia

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    The Bible. The Bible In Basic English (also known as the BBE) is a translation of the Bible into Basic English. The BBE was translated by Professor S. H. Hooke using the standard 850 Basic English words. 100 words that were helpful to understand poetry were added along with 50 "Bible" words for a total of 1,000 words. This version is effective ...