Rhetorical devices/appeals
10th period
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Pathos / Emotion
1.
2.
3.
“And that of an angry god” (pg. 98)
“Consider the fearful danger you are in.” (pg 98)
“The most hateful and venomous serpent” (pg 98)\
Term: Appeal for emotion
Logos
-
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or a loathsome insect over
a fire” He uses a metaphor of logic to help us understand his point better.
-
“You are thus in the hands of an angry God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from
being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction.” He describes why you are on the earth
right now and not in hell, and it is of no good deed, but because of God’s hand
“But indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to
keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it.” Mankind won’t be
mankind if God does not support it.
-
Definition: Logos is a literary device that can be defined as a statement, sentence or argument used to
convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic.
Ethos
Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the
persuader.
➔
➔
➔
Pastor, “Keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the
houses of God, and may be strict in it” - He is a human not a God (98)
Human, “So that thus it is, that natural men are held in the hand of God over
the pit of hell” - He is separating him (natural human) to God. (97)
The Picture (man), during this time it showed that men were more to be seen
then woman
Connotation
Connotation- an idea or feeling that a word evokes in addition to its literal or
primary meaning
Examples: “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend
downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell;”(Edwards 98) The word
wickedness evokes how evil this person is, adds more feeling.
“You are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, as the most hateful and
venomous serpent is in ours.” (Edwards 98)
“O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath,
that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and
incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell:..”
Parallelism
1.
2.
3.
“If God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling than the thin air to
hold up a person suspended in it… and If God should let you go,you would immediately and swiftly
descend…”(page 98)
“The bow of god's wrath is bent, and the arrow is made ready on the string, and justice bends the
arrow at your heart” (page 98)
“The god that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect,
over the fire, abhors you” (page 97)
Parallelism- the use of successive verbal construction in poetry
or writing
Alliteration
Definition:
-Alliteration is when the
same sound occurs at
the beginning of close
connected words.
“To Appease or Abate that Anger”
(Paragraph 1)
The repetition of “A” within this quote serves to
reinforce the concept that this is an angry god who will
not be appeased easily.
“And uncovenanted,
unobliged Forbearance”
(Paragraph 1)