LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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alliteration
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metaphor
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personification
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simile
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Detailed explanation-1: -“That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you” (80). “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead” (80).
Detailed explanation-2: -“Hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up, ” this illustrates personification in giving the flames of hell the live ability to hold and swallow us. It portrays how we will be consumed by our own sins if we do not act on them to better ourselves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imagery & Metaphor In this fire-and-brimstone sermon, Edwards uses the metaphor of fire & the imagery associated with it to link his listeners’ experience of fire to the idea of burning in the fires of Hell because of their sins.
Detailed explanation-4: -This metaphor compares God holding back his wrath with a floodgate holding back a river. If God decides to “let himself go, ” his wrath would be as devastating as a flood resulting from the opening of a dam.