Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God with Brittany Payne

1. Edwards hopes were to accompish that the Puritans would come and take over the land beacuse they wanted to take over the churches and change them.
2. When Edward says "Natural Men" he is compairing it to the common man, meaning before they gain power.
3. The meaning of appease and abate is the same thing, both mean pacify.
4. Edwards uses this technique to continue a comparison in the second paragraph.
5. The purpose of this clause is to further explain "The world of misery" by using an appositive to compare it to "that lake of buring brimstone." An example of another apposititve would be "Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God..."
6. The repetition of the word "and" is to emphasize the meaning of the continued sentence. The rhetorical effect is to maintain the emphasis and continue on with the meaning of the example.
7. Edwards uses semicolons to connect the independent clauses because he wants to make sure the comparison is continued and not ended by a period.
8. Edwards develops a simile in paragraph 5 by comparing "The wrath of God" to the "...great waters that are dammed of the present."(Page 103) The power of imagery is very vivid throughout this paragraph, but it gives you a stronger look on power rather than actual seeing. He uses the simile because he wants to give the audience a more clear look on his perspective.
9. The figurative language and images in the next three paragraphs (6, 7, & 8) talk about the development of the sinners path and the imagery gives a vivid look on the damnation of the sinners future.
10. The nature of appeals that Edwards is displaying is pathos because he is basically just trying to scare the audience, he has no logic or anything to back up his argument.
11.Edwards tone is anger because he's expressing the dangers of Hell and he doesn't want them to experience Gods wrath of Hell.
12. Edwards wants his sermon to be heard so that the audience can hear the tone in his voice and feel the emotions in his words. He doesn't want the text to be misunderstood or taken in a different context therefore it should heard not read.
13. His text is persuasive because Edwards wants the sinners to not sin and feel the dangers of Gods wrath so he is going about his sermon to put the fear of God in them. The sermon is very effective by just reading a part of it so hearing the whole thing would most definitely scare you. You define a persuasive text by the emotions the author intends for you.
14. The parts of Edwards speech that might have caused audience members to faint or cry out would have been most likely the parts where he describes eternal life in Hell and the "...burning bottomless pit of Gods wrath."