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    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. A Great furance of warth like a whirlwind the summer threshing floor 3. What specific words (minimum of three) does he choose to make his tone clear? Danger‚ Wrath‚ Damned in hell 4. 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

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    Hands Of An Angry God’’ Jonathan Edwards used rhetorical strategies to get effectively to get his point across. Such as: imagery‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ pathos‚ and ethos. All of these rhetorical strategies were successful in this sermon. The ones that I will be explaining in this analysis of his sermon are metaphor‚ pathos‚ and imagery. These rhetorical strategies that Jonathan Edwards used‚ was the best way to get his point across. Imagery played an important part of Jonathan Edwards’s sermon. Imagery

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    Benjamin Franklin Was Known for Many Things... Benjamin Franklin was known for many things. Most people know him from his famous kite flying experiment‚ but he was mostly famous for helping writing the draft for the Declaration of Independence. Ben was also known for being a printer‚ writer‚ scientist‚ inventor‚statesman‚ civic leader‚ and diplomat.(America’s Library) By the end of his life he was elected for governor of Pennsylvania and lived a happy life.(Great Life of Benjamin Franklin) When

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    Jonathan Edwards: A student of Aristotle In order to spread religious revitalization in Enfield‚ Connecticut a colonial American preacher‚ Jonathan Edwards‚ gives a sermon entitled Sinners in the hands of an angry God. This would become Edward’s most recognizable sermon and draw its reverence from the reaction it produces in the congregation at Enfield. Edwards provokes cries for salvation and repentance with his words using Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion ethos‚ land pathos. Jonathan Edwards

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    God" by Jonathan Edwards was strictly focused on wicked Puritians and thier belife on their almighty God. Edwards wanted to persue his audience that all wicked people should repent from thier sins or else they would face the consquences of angry God. Thougout this sermon Johnathan Edwards incorpriates retorical devices to persue his audience that they need to repent from thier sins. The retoical devices Edwards uses to emphasize his point are illusions‚ similies‚ and analogies. Jonathan Edwards utilized

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    Benjamin Franklin is a hero who still has an impact on us today. He invented objects that some people still use now. He invented a way to harness and conduct electricity. He also invented bifocal glasses‚ swim fins‚and a musical instrument called the glass harmonica. He was very intelligent and involved in politics. His knowledge got him to where he ended up. He started from being poor‚ to becoming very wealthy. To understand more about Benjamin Franklin‚ you will need to know about his life‚ politics

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    the Franklin‚ is superior to any thing I ever saw of the kind: I see him still at work when I go home from Club; and he is at Work again before his Neighbours are out of bed.” – Doctor Baird‚ member of club that Franklin was a part of (pg 119). While serving nearly no other purpose in the book‚ Doctor Baird in this quote describes the one quality or Benjamin’‚ eagerness to succeed‚ that turned him into who we known his as today. Benjamin Franklin‚ formally the namesake of his Uncle Benjamin due to

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    Benjamin Franklin was an author‚ printer‚ postmaster‚ diplomat‚ political theorist‚ politician‚ civic activist‚ statesman‚ scientist‚ inventor‚ and many more things. He did many things to help the United States‚ and he even signed the constitution. Benjamin Franklin should be the second most important founding father. It was so important that he went to the constitutional convention that he was carried there in a sedan chair by people because the bumpy carriage ride on cobblestone was too rough for

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    Benjamin Franklin This portrait‚ which depicts Franklin as a learned scientist and inventor‚ was one of his favorites. Pictured on the left is the signal-bell apparatus Franklin devised to detect the presence of electrically-charged clouds. The bolt of lightning ‚ seen through the open window‚ became an attribute closely identified with Franklin. At Franklin’s death French philosopher/scientist Jacques Turgot wrote: "He seized the lightning from the sky and the scepter from the hand of tyrants."

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    The Life of Benjamin Franklin is a documentary in which historians and scholars examine Benjamin Franklin’s life. The documentary explains in detail about his innovations‚ creations‚ and all of his achievements in both science and politics. Many people often praise him for his extraordinary mind and his desire to solve any problem that he comes across‚ the first half of the documentary when they explain his life as a child and young adult is interesting and explains many of his characteristics.

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