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Which literary device did ancient Hebrew poets use to create poetry?
sarcasm
acrostics
limericks
single-syllable words
theology
narrative
parallelism
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Parallelism.
Ancient Hebrew poetry primarily used parallelism — matching or contrasting lines (synonymous, antithetic, or synthetic) — as its basic organizing device. (Acrostics appear in some poems, e.g. Psalm 119, but are secondary.)
Ancient Hebrew poetry primarily used parallelism — matching or contrasting lines (synonymous, antithetic, or synthetic) — as its basic organizing device. (Acrostics appear in some poems, e.g. Psalm 119, but are secondary.)
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