ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -Jonathan Edwards incorporates personification in his speech. “And the world would spew you out.” This gives the world personification by allowing the world to spew as a human would. This pursuades the puritans that they will be forgotten an be taken out from the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -“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-4: -THE BOW OF GOD’S WRATH IS BENT, AND THE ARROW MADE READY ON THE STRING. HE USED A METAPHOR SUCH AS DEATH OUTWITTED ME. THE TONE IS THREATENING, HOPING THE AUDIENCE WILL REPENT. YOU HANG BY A SLENDER THREAD, WITH THE FLAMES OF DIVINE WRATH FLASHING ABOUT IT.