Name That Figure of Speech

Here's a few for you then, JoJ:

"You must be born again" (just to get you started).

"For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle on a thousand hills."

'For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.'

'For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past.'

'....The word which He commanded for a thousand generations.'

'Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an armoury on which hang a thousand bucklers.'

'.....That with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.'

'.......And bound him for a thousand years.'

What figure of speech is 'a thousand' in each of these last seven verses?

 

1. Rev. 1:14--His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; Simile?

2. Luke 13:32--Go tell that fox.... Metaphor?

3. Rev. 11:8--the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt.... Metonymy?

4. Is. 24:1--Behold the Lord maketh the earth (Israel) empty. Synecdoche?

5. Is. 24:4--The earth mourneth and fadeth away. Personification?

6. 1 Cor. 15:55--O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Apostrophe?

7. John 21:25--And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. Hyperbole?

8. 1 Kings 18:27--Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. Irony?

9. 1 Peter 5:6--Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Anthropomorphism?

10. Acts 9:5-- I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Idiom?

 

My main problem with him was that I think he held to limited inspiration, as he wanted to still hold to evolution and problems in history and science, but OK in all spiritual manners!

 

Ok, this will cause me to actually think.

Maybe, I will be wrong, so don't hesitate to drag out that red pencil and place a huge red "X" next to the errors.

In one education system, they do not allow teachers to grade with red.

"Like" or "as" indicate the use of a simile.

The assignment of a place, thing, or idea in place of a person is a metaphor.

Spiritualizing by assigning a character of another of like physical would be metonym.

Idiom from the standpoint of stating something has occurred yet not what has actually occurred.

Personification by giving human attributes to what is not human

This isn't included in your list, but perhaps this is a statement of allusion within a statement of irony?

hyperbole, for John does not use exaggeration in the manner of "evangelically speaking" but does allow himself this privilege of what might be actually true if actually done.

apostrophe as one mocking what does not exist

No figure of speech but the truth, although I suppose it could be anthropomorphic.

metonym by suggesting the "pricks" is the conviction of the Holy Spirit.


Hmmmm.

I didn't do too good.

Should have had a better teacher who gave me the information to study before the exam.

Or, maybe this is a pre-exam to give the professor guidance in what weaknesses to address.

 

That definition of synedoche doesn’t really match what I've been taught in English class. Is that a linguistics specific definition?

A part being used to describe the whole was what I was taught, with "head" for cattle or "hands" for workers being the commonly used examples.

 

And still learned from his textbook, despite those areas of his problems!

 

It is so much easier to just recognize a figure of speech then to actually determine what the title of the figure of speech may be!

Kind of like memorizing the states and capitals doesn't mean one can locate them on a map.

Back in the 1900's, one of the neat courses of study I greatly enjoyed was on Victorian Prose and Poetry. But, the information has long faded. Somewhere, I may still have the textbook if it wasn't ruined in the great garage flood.

 

Ok so which ones are right and wrong?

Jerome's answers are different from mine!

He is smarter then I am, but I'm unanimous in thinking I am right.

 

Ah, ok. I tried the footnote, it didn't work for me.

 

Job 38
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

 

Psalm 23
1{A Psalm of David.} The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.