Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God

"He was a big, beefy man with hardly

any neck, although he did have a very

large mustache."

~description of Vernon Dursely, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"you hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it"

~"Sinners"

Metaphor

"The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string..." ~"Sinners"

Allusion

Remus Lupin's name: Remus alludes

to the Roman myth of Remus and his

twin brother Romulus; Lupin alludes to

the Latin word meaning "wolf"

~Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

a strategy intended to influence public reaction by making them feel guilty

Appeal to Fear

a strategy intended to influence public reaction by the exploitation of fear

Read Edwards's 5th paragraph

Appeal to Pity

a strategy intended to influence public reaction by the exploitation of someone's pity. Takes advantage of people's sympathy & compassion for others

"...as angry he is with many of those miserable creatures that he is now tormenting in hell.."

~"Sinners"

Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God

Anaphora

Polysyndenton

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences

Symbol

the use of coordinating conjunctions in rapid succession

Rhetorical Question

a reference to something familiar (literature, history, religion, myth...etc.) either directly or by implication

"...and nothing to lay hold of to save you, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do..."

~"Sinners"

"But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land."

~Martian Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream"

a thing that stands for itself as well as something beyond itself, such as an abstraction

a question posed for its proposed effect without the expectation of a reply

I said "Who killed him?" and he said, "I don't know who killed him but he's dead alright," and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat..."

~Hemingway "After the Storm"

"So that thus it is, that natural men are held in the hand of god over the pit of Hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger..."

~"Sinners"

"Who is here so vile that will not love his country?"

~Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar

"But, alas! instead of one, how many is it likely will remember this discourse in hell?"

~"Sinners"

The conch in the Lord of the Flies

God's Hands

..."for who knows the power of God's anger?" ~"Sinners"

Reference to Psalm 90:11

The Crucible Connection

The narrator of The Crucible states that "the necessity of the devil may become evident as a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state" (Miller 35).

What is rhetoric?

Jonathan Edwards

1703-1758

a comparison between 2 unlike objects, stating that one thing is another

Rhetorical Devices

• the art of expressive art or discourse
• language characterized by artificial or ostentatious expression
• the art of writing or speaking effectively

Emotional Appeals

Syntax

Figures of Speech

"All the world's a stage"

~ Shakespeare

Syntax

Emotional Appeals

rhetorical question

Repetition

cataplexis & appeal to fear

Figures of Speech

Repetition

metaphor, imagery, allusion, symbol

anaphora & polysyndeton

Emotional Appeals

Imagery

Appeal to Guilt

visually descriptive language

"...and they have done nothing in the lease to appease or abate that anger"

~"Sinners"