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Name: Your chosen Three Worlds Presentation Passage: 2.4 Three Worlds Presentation (3WP) – Three Worlds Questions Instructions: Complete each of the tables in the following worksheet. In many cases, the most successful answers will be between 75-150 words for each question. Be sure to provide chapter and verse numbers to support your answers where needed. Question 1 Function of the Text in Literary Context (Literary World) A. What happens in the passage immediately before your assigned passage? What words, ideas, or themes show up in both the passage immediately before your assigned passage and within your assigned passage? How does your passage develop these words/themes? B. What happens in the passage immediately after your assigned passage? What words, ideas, or themes show up both within your assigned passage and in the passage after your assigned passage? How does your passage connect to what follows it? C. Identify and describe two other passages anywhere in the Gospel of Matthew where the words/ ideas/themes from your assigned passage also appear. Question 2 Connection to Other Texts (Literary World) A. How might your assigned passage connect with or allude to other biblical material, either elsewhere in the New Testament or in the Old Testament? (Hint: Use the NOAB notes to help you identify these connections.) Question 3 Analysis of Text (Literary World) For this exercise you will complete either Option 1 Narrative Analysis if your chosen text tells a story with characters who do and say things or Option 2 Speech Analysis if your chosen text includes primarily a single speaker who delivers a speech. If your passage is a narrative, complete Option 1 only and delete Option 2 from your submission. If your passage is a speech, complete Option 2 only and delete Option 1 from your submission. Option 1 Narrative Analysis Complete this option if your chosen text tells a story with characters who do and say things. A. What are the main elements of your passages plot? (What happens in the story?) B. What conflict or tension arises in the plot? How is the conflict resolved? C. Who are the primary characters in the passage? (continued next page) D. Describe each of the characters you identified in C using descriptors like major/minor, protagonist/antagonist, flat/dynamic, etc. E. Identify at least two key words in the passage. Where do those words appear, and why are they essential for understanding the passage? Option 2 Speech Analysis Complete this option if your chosen text includes primarily a single speaker who delivers a speech. A. Who is the speaker and the audience? How do they relate? B. What is the speakers aim (to instruct, delight, challenge, lament, etc.)? Identify all possible aims. C. What strategies does the speaker use to achieve their goal (appeals to logic, appeals to own credibility, emotional appeal, etc.)? D. What rhetorical devices (repetition, balance, metaphor, simile, wordplay, parallelism, emphasis, direct appeal to audience, etc.) are used in the speech to convince or persuade the audience.? E. What images or symbols are used in the speech? F. Identify at least two key words in the passage. Where do those words appear, and why are they essential for understanding the passage? Question 4 (Historical World) A. Identify or raise a question about at least one historical issue (e.g. belief, custom, tradition, practice, structure, people group, etc.) that appears particular to the texts ancient context. Explain how that issue could help you to understand your assigned passage more. Question 5 Synthesis A. What is the main point of your assigned passage in its literary and/or historical context? (Answer should be at least 100 words.) Question 6 Application (Contemporary World) A. What is the meaning or relevance of your passage for today? 2