Jonathan Edwards Essay

1. Explain the mood of this passage. The mood of this passage is somber and serious. During the passage Jonathan is in a very serious purport.2. Using special(prenominal) 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 speaking to elicit this bad-tempered mood. Jonathan Edwards is a preacher trying to scare his congregation into salvation he compares them to insects dangling over the fires of hell and only gods benignity keeps them from burning. The mood is angry and urgent. A metaphor would be the fire of wrath. A simile would be comparing people on the summer thresh about floor. An allusion would be hell. A word that plants the tone clear would be moot the fearful danger you are in. Lastly an image would be a spider hanging over furnace by a string held by a big hand that could drop it any time.3. What specific dustup (minimum of three) does he choose to denounce his tone clear? He uses a lot of words to make his tone clear. He uses a very flop tone of voice. He uses words like danger, wrath, damned in hell, etcetera These words make the passage a lot more nitty-gritty catching in my opinion.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? He uses gods rough wind to make his tone clear. His tone is also very serious while hes talking about this.5. In the last deuce paragraphs of the sermon (refer to the Investigate page of this lesson) Edwardss talks about an extraordinary hazard his congregation has. What is this opportunity? How does his sermon persuade the congregation to take emolument of this opportunity? The opportunity that Edward is talking about in the last two paragraphs is Salvation. Hes telling the people that only way not to get to hell is through salvation or else theyll end up in hell and thats not a place they would take to be.