Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

1. Edwards wants to persuade the audience to be born again and live clean.
2. Those who sin despite their beliefs. He continues about them going to Hell soon and his audience is fundamentalist Christians.
3. To change God's mind.
4. To emphasize his point to the audience.
5. It gives multiple ways to describe the main idea. In paragraph two is another.
6. To emphasize how many criteria there are.
7. To express them as individual statements. He repeats "not willing" to that you don't matter.
8. God's wrath is always at the ready. The imagery helps us to understand the power God possesses.
9. He begins to portray God as a scary angry person.
10. Edwards uses what the audience already knows about God to support his case, ethos by putting the fear of God into the audience, and pathos by using specific words and the way that he worded his statements.
11. Edwards' tone is very serious and almost angry. He talks about how God's wrath is like a bow making us feel fear. I didn't notice a change in the mood. He seemed very serious about his reason for the speech from the very beginning
12. Text that is meant to be heard usually uses smaller and easier to understand words so that the audience isn't lost during your speech. Text that is meant to be read often has larger more difficult words.
13. The text is persuasive by his use of specific reasons based off of the fundamentalist beliefs that make the audience understand where he is coming from.
14. I believe that it would be the parts where he portrays God as scary which a lot of the audience isn't used to. It may have been because he had convinced the audience that they were all inevitably doomed to Hell.