LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Sorrowful to joyous
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Joyous to resentful
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Frightening to hopeful
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Sympathetic to bitter
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Detailed explanation-1: -Toward the end of the sermon, Edwards’s tone shifts from what to what? Frightening to hopeful. According to the final paragraphs, sinners may be able to obtain what? Salvation.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the selection “Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God.” The author’s tone throughout this selection is threatening, cautionary, condemning, unsympathetic, and strict.
Detailed explanation-3: -Edwards’s aim was to teach his listeners about the horrors of Hell, the dangers of sin, and the terrors of being lost. Edwards described the position of those who do not follow Christ’s urgent call to receive forgiveness.
Detailed explanation-4: -In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, ” Jonathan Edwards created the emotion of fear by using imagery and figurative language to persuade his audience. He used imagery and figurative language so the wrath of God is more fearsome and gave you a mental picture of hell in your head.
Detailed explanation-5: -He uses tone to draw the attention of the congregation and also to bring them toward the light of God. Jonathan Edwards draws the attention of the congregation by being extremely harsh and the use of horrifying metaphors. The metaphors that he uses are those of the pain and suffering of hell.