Yesenia Guzman
Ms. McCarthy
English11 prd#1
19 November 2012
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edward was born on October 5, 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut. As Jonathan began growing up he always expressed his huge passion towards god. So great was his passion that by the age of twenty-four he started creating his own sermons and spreading them first among those he knew and then toward everyone in his community. Edwards was one of the world’s most well known preachers of the great awaking. In one of his most well known sermons “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Edwards would use figurative language to create a frightful tone. Jonathan Edwards would use similes to create a frightful tone. For example “Your wickedness makes you as it were as heavy as lead….Your destruction will come like world winds…and you would be like the chaff of summer threshing “(Edwards109). This exemplar compares your wickedness to being as heavy as lead and your destruction to be like world wind and it showed that for those that did not believe they had a huge burden on their backs. It shared that you yourself create your own path whether it takes you through the gardens of heaven or through the paths of destruction. The word them self express huge tension and pressure into believing in gods holy kingdom because they spoke of what would happen if you didn’t. Jonathan Edwards would use personification to create a horrific tone. For example “The bow of god’s wrath is bent” (Edwards 109). This personifies god’s wrath to a bow being bent, this shows great emotion and strength. It’s saying that gods well and power is great and if you as a person did wrong you could be condemning yourself to a life of misery. It would give people an idea of how powerful god was and how deep he could go against evil.
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