As the puritans were losing faith and going away from religion in the 1700s, a period known as the great awakening, revivalist hoped to bring them back and show them the right path. In his famous sermon, Sinners in the hands of an angry god, Jonathan Edwards strives to bring to help them gain salvation. Through the use of his acerbic tone, Edwards is able to fully convey multiple rhetorical techniques: repetition, imagery, and metaphor.
Edward uses repetition to firmly express his acerbic tone. He expresses to the congregation that nothing you do will help you, he keeps repeating the phase “pleasure of god” to show that that would be their last and only hope, which conveys the tone because it’s very sharp. ”There is the dreadful pit of glowing
Edward uses repetition to firmly express his acerbic tone. He expresses to the congregation that nothing you do will help you, he keeps repeating the phase “pleasure of god” to show that that would be their last and only hope, which conveys the tone because it’s very sharp. ”There is the dreadful pit of glowing