1. FIGURES OF SPEECH IN THE BIBLE PART four

2. Review pt one SIMILe Metaphor Allegory Metonomy
Tip #1 It is figurative if literal interpretation would be absurd

3. Review pt two Synecdoche Irony Sarcasm Hyperbole
Tip #2 It is figurative if a Bible writer says it has a different meaning.

4. Review pt three Personification Riddle Paronomasia Anthropomorphism
Tip #3 Figurative if other Bible writers interpret it figuratively.

5. How to figure out if a scripture is figurative
Tip #4 It is figurative if it makes a contradiction in itself.

6. *Isa. 11:6 & 35:9 lions or no lions?
* Mt. 1:21-25 Jesus or Immanuel?
* I Cor. 11:24, 27 body of Jesus or bread?
* II Cor. 5:1 & Heb. 3:4 a house not built with hands?

7. Paradox Opposites are seemingly affirmed of one and the same subject.
A. Mt. 10:39 "he who finds his life will lose it"
B. II Cor. 12:10 "when I am weak then am I strong"

8. Contrast Pointing out differences of otherwise like things.
A. Pro. 11:1 "a false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight
B. Pro. 15:1 a gentle answer turns away wrath but a harsh word Stirs up anger.

9. Comparison Pointing out likenesses of otherwise different things
A. Psa. 84:10 "a day is better than a thousand . . .
B. Pro. 22:1 a good name is to be more desired than great riches, Favor is better than silver and gold.

10. Parable
A story by which something real in life is used as a means of presenting a spiritual or moral thought.
A. Mt. 13:45-46 kingdom & pearl of great price
B. Lk. 8:9-15 the sower & the soils

12. XVII. Prolepsis: an anticipation or describing of something before it takes place.
A. Gen. 12:8 Bethel referred to before it became Bethel Gen. 28:19

13. XVIII. Apostrophe: the writer or speaker turns away from his immediate Form of speech and directly addresses either the inanimate object or The person or persons who are the object of his discourse
A. Psa. 114:3-6 the sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. The Mountains skipped like rams. The hills like lambs. What ails you. O Sea. That you flee? O jordan that you turn back? O mountains. That You skip like rams? O hills. Like lambs.

14. XIX. Symbol: an emblem which is fixed in the mind of men as a sign of something
A. I Cor. 1:18 the cross
B. Rev. 1:20 seven lampstands

15. XX. Type: analogy between the type and anti-type as shadow & reality
XX. Type: analogy between the type and anti-type as shadow & reality. A type represents something future.
A. Rom. 5:12-21 Adam a type of Christ
B. I Cor. 10:1-13 Israel in wilderness and the church
C. Heb. 4:14; 9:12 Melchizedek and Christ