Plase help if you are good in English this is due tomorrow and I need help nOW!!?

Question

"Consider the fearful danger you are in; it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire 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. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you.... The sovereign pleasure of God, for the present, stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come like a whirlwind, and you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor."

Using specific examples, give one example of a metaphor, one example of a simile, and one example of an allusion that Edwards uses in this passage from the sermon to elicit this particular mood.

What images (pictures in the listeners' mind) does Edwards use in the passage to make his tone clear? What effect do those images have on establishing the tone of the piece?

I don't understand this passage at all...please help me because I am very confused : (

Answer 1

The reference to the sovereign pleasure of God is (I think) an allusion. Like the chaff is another simile, and the great furnace of wrath is a metaphor. The main images are the fire & furnace, which make U think of Hell. The slender thread is the danger U R in. Basically, the preacher is saying that we are all in danger of Hell fire, and there is nothing we can do that will be of any use. It is only God's pleaure/will that stops us from dying. Hope this helps - it's a bit gloomy.

Answer 2

The passage is really easy to understand if your teacher gave you background information to go along with it. The title is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, which helps you figure out what the whole sermon is actually about. The author, Jonathan Edwards, was a New England Puritan minister in the 1740s. This particular sermon was basically saying that sinners were right on the edge of slipping in to hell. The sinners were in a precarious situation, like a spider being hung by a thread over an open flame. His goal with this sermon was to convert people to the Calvinistic religious views of the Puritans at the time.

A metaphor is a comparison of two different things without using the words like or as. "Consider the fearful danger you are in; it IS a great furnace of wrath..."

A simile is a comparison of two things using the words like or as. "...and you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor."

An Allusion is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. "You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it..."

Answer 3

The belligerence of society is against you and all that represents
you. You have nothing good to live for and no one can save you now. Nothing of your power can save you now.

When it says "The sovereign pleasure of God, for the present, stays his rough, wind; otherwise it would come like a whirlwind, and you would be like the chaff of the summer threshing floor".

What pleasures God is his "rough" wrath for now. He is gentle
in the magnitude of his wrath, but he can also sweep you away like a whirlwind. God can be gentle or abrupt and violent. The whole world is against you. You are so close to eternal darkness that neither man or power of a greater being
but God can save you now. Does this make sense? :)

Answer 4

metaphor, danger is a furnace. simile, flames of wrath would come like a whirlwind. i don't know what an allusion is

Answer 5

basically, this is God talking to him, telling him that he's pretty close to going to Hell if he doesn't ask for a mediator, which means Christ. Christians believe that Christ is our go-between, our mediator for us with God. It is the Christian belief that mankind can do nothing of his own efforts to save himself, so we (christians) are to cast ourselves on God's mercy. "stays his rough wind" means he's going to do nothing for now, otherwise you're going to be like smashed. wheat if he decided to whack you now. "You have no interest in a mediator" means that the person is proud and seeks no help. Kinda means that to me. ..

Let me give you a hint that will help you in just about any term paper you may do. You can come up with just about any point of view and if you can give enough reasons why you think it is so, you have proved your point and you opinion has something to stand on.

Answer 6

SIMILE USES LIKE OR AS TO COMPARE TO THINGS. METEPHORE COMPARES TO THINGS NOT USING LIKE OR AS. YOU ARE PROBABLY JUST THINKING TO DEEPLY AND THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. HE USES THINGS PEOPLE FEAR FIRE, WHIRL WIND, ALMOST FALLING, ENDLESS PIT, HELL. ALBERT ENSTINE SAID THAT PEOLE FEAR THE UNKNOW SO THEY BELIEVE IN SOMETHING LIKE RELIGION SO THAT THEY DON'T FEAR DEATH.