The author’s focus on this chapter is on identifying prominent stylistic and rhetorical features of biblical literature, with occasional suggestions of how they might be represented in a translation aiming for functional equivalence. The assumption is that an in-depth appreciation of the source text's features contributing to its literary quality needs to precede the attempt to produce a literary translation, especially in an approach such as functional equivalence where 'faithfulness' to the source text is viewed as a primary goal.