He tries to scare Puritans into choosing good and if not, they will be sent to Hell. He sends a message that God is the bad guy and some scary person. Edwards uses the word “wrath” in an angry tone to show how angry God is. Edwards is angry, mocking, pity, and a big ego throughout the sermon. “Glowing flames of the wrath of God.” “ Fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God” (Edwards 80). Edward also uses figures of speech to compare God’s wrath to the ordinary, everyday things with imagery. Unlike Sinners of an Angry God, Burning House is the complete …show more content…
Bradstreet uses imagery on how her things belongings were destroyed, how she had nowhere for her and her family to sit. “My pleasant things in ashes lie, And them behold no more shall I. Under thy roof no guest shall sit, Nor at thy table eat a bit” (Bradstreet 70). The way she expresses imagery shows how melancholy she is but at the same time she does not really care because she knows everything happens because of God and Bradstreet is not angry about it. In Edwards sermon, he also uses imagery. Edwards uses imagery to show the wrath of God and hell. “There is dreadful pit of the glowing flames of God.” “There is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power of God that holds you up” (Edwards