Edwards's sermon contained a lot of similes, metaphors and imagism. An example of a metaphor would be like "the wrath of God that is expressed in torments of hell." All the metaphors in the sermon are related to the wrath of God is...and then it compared to the water, storms, bow and arrow, and a bottomless pit. All his choice of words are elevated because when he wrote this ser

And lastly the tone that Edwards' gives in his sermon is that he feels superior to them because he knows what needs to be done in order to not go to the burning fire of hell. A sort of pity at the beginning for not knowing what needs to be done but at the end of the sermon he sounds cheerful. He says it with this potential that the audience, which are the Puritans, truly believe in what he is saying. He says it with such conviction and adulation. He puts a lot of emphasis on the message he is trying to convey and that helps him because when he is preaching the people place close attention to what he saying and by that the audience learns more. Some of his words choices are hard to get at the beginning because they are different than from the ones that many people use today.

In the sermon the sentence structure is definitive different than a writer nowadays. His writing is very concrete because people are able to see what he write

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Angry God, Jonathan Edwards, reading people, change attitude, burning fire, burning fire hell, edwards' style, wrath god, sentence structure, fire hell, style writing,
Approximate Word count = 635
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)