Jonathan Edwards wrote this lecture, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” to preach to the congregation of his church during the period of Great Awakening, a time of religious revival. He knows how to persuade and uses numerous techniques to do so. In his sermons, Edward’s expressive, informative, and argumentative writing style and his use of simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and tone creates a fearful, emotional image in the minds of his readers.
One of Edward’s productive approaches to scare the audience of the unsaved people was through the use of imagery, which is the usage of words to create an image in the minds of his listeners. The use of imagery serves a purpose in Edward’s sermon