He also allowed for the personality of each book's author to have free expression. That is why Isaiah does not read like Jeremiah, or 1 Peter like 1 Corinthians. That is why the Bible does not read like books written in our day. Styles and modes of expression have changed. Common to every language are figures of speech, which, if unrecognized by readers, will cause them to misunderstand the subtleties of what they are reading.
Some languages are richer in the number of figures of speech than others.
E.W. Bullinger in his classic work Figures of Speech Used in the Bible has identified 217 distinct types of figures of speech found in the Scriptures. This is always for the purpose of giving additional force, more life, intensified feeling and greater emphasis. But the very opposite is the case. 16 For a figure to be a synecdoche there must be an internal association between the two ideas. For example, in Isaiah 7 Ephraim is used figuratively for the whole house of Israel.