Johnathon Edwards
1. Explain the mood of this passage.
The mood of this passage is persuasive angry admonitory which means it’s a warning for people.
2. Using specific examples, give one example of a metaphor, one example of a simile, and one example of an allusion that Edwards uses in this passage from the sermon to elicit this particular mood.
a. Metaphor: A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as. For example: In the sermon the metaphor of loathsome insects describes sinners. The congregation's righteousness is compared to a spider's web. God is compared to an archer. What metaphor is used for Hell in the italicized passage?
Great furnace of wrath
b. Simile: A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as. For example: "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present." What similes are used in the italicized passage?
Comparing people to chaff on the summer threshing floor
c. Allusion: An allusion is a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture. Puritan writing makes allusions or references to specific passages from the Bible. As you read the sermon, locate the allusions to biblical verses and figures.
The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation: let everyone fly out of Sodom, "Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed"
This is an allusion from Genesis.
3. What specific words (minimum of three) does he choose to make his tone clear?
Brimstone, incensed, abominable, an vexation.
4. What images (pictures in the listeners' mind) does Edwards use in the passage to make his tone clear? What effect do those images have on establishing the tone of the piece?
Edwards uses many images to describe God’s wrath. Examples: “black clouds”, “fiery floods”, “great waters” and a "bent bow with an
The mood of this passage is persuasive angry admonitory which means it’s a warning for people.
2. Using specific examples, give one example of a metaphor, one example of a simile, and one example of an allusion that Edwards uses in this passage from the sermon to elicit this particular mood.
a. Metaphor: A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as. For example: In the sermon the metaphor of loathsome insects describes sinners. The congregation's righteousness is compared to a spider's web. God is compared to an archer. What metaphor is used for Hell in the italicized passage?
Great furnace of wrath
b. Simile: A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as. For example: "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present." What similes are used in the italicized passage?
Comparing people to chaff on the summer threshing floor
c. Allusion: An allusion is a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture. Puritan writing makes allusions or references to specific passages from the Bible. As you read the sermon, locate the allusions to biblical verses and figures.
The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation: let everyone fly out of Sodom, "Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed"
This is an allusion from Genesis.
3. What specific words (minimum of three) does he choose to make his tone clear?
Brimstone, incensed, abominable, an vexation.
4. What images (pictures in the listeners' mind) does Edwards use in the passage to make his tone clear? What effect do those images have on establishing the tone of the piece?
Edwards uses many images to describe God’s wrath. Examples: “black clouds”, “fiery floods”, “great waters” and a "bent bow with an