1. Introduction -- Scope and aims -- Stylistics and Hebrew poetry -- 2. Poetic texts in other Semitic languages -- Introduction -- Ugaritic poetry -- Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) poetic material -- 3. Analysing Hebrew poetry: Notes on method -- Terminology -- Method -- Function in poetry -- Archaisms -- Dating -- Textual criticism -- Prose or poetry? -- Closure: notes on theory -- 4. The Hebrew poet in action -- Oral poetry -- Oral poetry: theory -- Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry -- Ancient Hebrew oral poetry -- Techniques and characteristics of oral poetry in Hebrew -- Epic poetry in Hebrew?
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12. Secondary techniques -- Expansion -- Lists -- Inversion -- 13. Appendix: Worked examples -- Introduction -- A Ugaritic poem -- Babylonian poetry -- Hebrew examples -- Closing comments -- Indexes: -- Index of subjects -- Index of numerical references -- Index of biblical references -- Index of Hebrew words -- Index of Hebrew word-pairs -- Index of Ugaritic texts -- Index of Ugaritic words -- Index of Ugaritic word-pairs -- Index of Akkadian texts -- Index of Akkadian words -- Index of other texts -- Index of authors cited.
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5. Metre -- What is metre? -- Metre in ancient Semitic languages -- The stress (accentual) theory of Hebrew metre -- Other theories: survey and critique -- Anacrusis -- Functions of metre -- 6. Parallelism -- Introductory -- Gender-matched parallelism -- Parallel word-pairs -- Number parallelism -- Staircase parallelism -- Others types of parallelism -- 7. Stanza and strophe -- The stanza -- Strophic patterns: introduction -- The monocolon -- The abc/b'c' couplet -- The tricolon -- Strophic patterns: the quatrain -- Strophic patterns: the pentacolon -- Higher strophic units -- Acrostics and related patterns.
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8. Verse-patterns -- Introduction -- Chiasmus and chiastic patterns -- The terrace pattern (anadiplosis and sorites) -- The pivot pattern -- 9. Sound in Hebrew poetry -- General -- Assonance -- Alliteration -- Rhyme -- Onomatopoeia -- Wordplay -- 10. Imagery -- Imagery -- Simile -- Metaphor -- 11. Poetic devices -- The interplay of poetic devices -- Repetition -- Envelope figure -- Keywords -- Refrain -- Allusion -- Ellipsis -- Irony -- Oxymoron -- Abstract for concrete -- Hyperbole -- Merismus -- Hendiadys -- The 'break-up' of a composite phrase -- Enjambment -- Delayed identification -- Rhetorical questions -- Ballast variant.