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: -The concrete image of a bent bow, of God’s wrath represents how close God really is to unleashing his wrath upon the people. The concrete image that appears in the reader’s head is a burning furnace.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -“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-4: -What does Edwards mean when he says, “The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string"? God is prepared to demonstrate his anger.