The Importance Of Literary Elements In The Bible

When people think of the Bible, they think of religion. People have to stop and think that the Bible is not only religion, but it’s also about literature. People question why to put literate styles because they think it will be easier to be straightforward with God’s message? The answer to that is that God used different people in different ways. The people God used wrote in the style they are known with as how the Holy Spirit encouraged them. There are so many types of literary means used by God to express what he wants us to know. Examples of literary elements are chiasm, allusion, hyperbole, metonymy, personification, acrostic, merism and type. Chiasm is everywhere in the word of God. Writers use this type of literate to add importance to their writings. They use this highlight the points of importance. Chiasm is the repetition sound. Two examples of Chiasm are …show more content…
This speech is very common in the bible. It is defined as “when more is said than is literally meant.” John 4:29 is an example of Hyperbole. A Samaritan woman spoke about Jesus and said “He told me all that I ever did.” Jesus did not tell the woman everything she had ever done in her life. The Samaritan woman was trying to make a point by using hyperbole. Another example of hyperbole is founded in John 3:26. John’s disciples were telling John about the popularity increasing of Jesus’ ministry. The disciples said to John: “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified- behold, He is baptizing, and all are coming to Him!” The question is, was did “entirely” of the people in the entire world was coming Jesus? No, the disciples were exaggerating which is hyperbole, to explain Jesus’ fame that was spreading. Bible readers can greatly benefit from knowing how and when the writers of the Bible used hyperbole. Everybody knows that amazing literature always uses figures of speech such as hyperbole to deliver its