Item Detail
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Parry, Donald W.
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Book, Section
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290
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290-92
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climactic forms; literary devices
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Climactic composition occurs when successive clauses, sentences, or a same word or words form the end of a text and begin another. Examples are found in Joel 1:3-4 and in Moroni 8:25-26. There are a score of other passages using this form in the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith can be commended in his translation work for leaving the passages structurally intact.