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    Imagery in Sinners in The Hands of An Angry God: by Swapnanil Deb, Mohammed Mannan, and Pratik Mishra

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    Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses vivid imagery to scare readers about the horrors of hell. It relies heavily on visual imagery to help readers imagine fiery floods and pits. It also employs tactile imagery to imagine overwhelming force and gustatory imagery to picture drinking blood. Overall, Edwards uses varied sensory imagery like smelling smoke or hearing crashing waves to make readers feel they are experiencing hell. His goal is to frighten non-believers using imagery of torturous events like burning, in an attempt to convince them of God's wrath.

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    Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses vivid imagery to scare readers about the horrors of hell. It relies heavily on visual imagery to help readers imagine fiery floods and pits. It also employs tactile imagery to imagine overwhelming force and gustatory imagery to picture drinking blood. Overall, Edwards uses varied sensory imagery like smelling smoke or hearing crashing waves to make readers feel they are experiencing hell. His goal is to frighten non-believers using imagery of torturous events like burning, in an attempt to convince them of God's wrath.

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    Jonathan Edwards' sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses vivid imagery to scare readers about the horrors of hell. It relies heavily on visual imagery to help readers imagine fiery floods and pits. It also employs tactile imagery to imagine overwhelming force and gustatory imagery to picture drinking blood. Overall, Edwards uses varied sensory imagery like smelling smoke or hearing crashing waves to make readers feel they are experiencing hell. His goal is to frighten non-believers using imagery of torturous events like burning, in an attempt to convince them of God's wrath.

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    Imagery in Sinners in the

    Hands of an Angry God


    By Swapnanil Deb, Mohammed Mannan, and Pratik
    Mishra
    What is Imagery?
    Imagery is a technique used by writers and speakers to
    help the reader imagine a situation
    Imagery is used in almost every text to engage the
    reader
    Examples of works that depend on its imagery a lot are
    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and
    Hamlet by Shakespeare
    Visual Imagery
    Visual Imagery is imagery that helps the reader see.
    This is the most prevalent form of imagery in
    Jonathan Edward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
    God.”
    Visual Imagery Examples
    “…and the fiery floods of the fierceness…”
    Fiery refers to red-orange, helping the reader see a color
    “… a wide and bottomless pit.”
    Wide and bottomless help the reader visualize the
    dimensions of the pit.
    “The bow of God’s wrath is bent.”
    The word bent helps the reader see a crooked bow
    Tactile Imagery
    Tactile imagery refers to what one can visualize
    touching or feeling.
    Tactile Imagery Examples
    “…were as heavy as lead.”
    The reader can imagine feeling something really heavy
    “…ten thousand times greater than the strength of the
    stoutest sturdiest devil in hell, it would be nothing to
    withstand or endure it…”
    A reader can imagine what such great force would feel
    like, especially if they visualize pushing it.
    Olfactory Imagery
    Olfactory imagery refers to imagery related to smell.
    Olfactory Imagery Examples
    “There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the
    wrath of God.”
    A reader can imagine smelling smoke.
    “His wrath towards you burns like fire.”
    A reader can imagine smelling smoke.
    Gustatory Imagery
    Gustatory imagery refers to tasting things, gusta-
    being a Latin root word for food.
    Gustatory Imagery Examples
    “…and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them
    up.”
    A reader can imagine swallowing, an action that is
    related to eating. They could also imagine a person
    being eaten in hell.
    “…being made drunk with your blood.”
    A reader can imagine the disgusting taste of blood when
    it is drank.
    Auditory Imagery
    Auditory imagery has to do with listening, with –audi
    being a root word for sound.
    Auditory Imagery Examples
    “His wrath towards you burns like fire.”
    People can imagine burning
    “…the fiery floods of the wrath of the fierceness and
    wrath of God would rush forth.”
    A reader can imagine the fairly recognizable sounds of
    waves crashing.
    Why?
    Edwards, in his sermon, used loads of imagery, and he
    did this because it would make the reader who does
    not believe in God or does not take religion seriously
    to imagine horrific imagines, trying to make them
    scared. All of his most vivid descriptions are of
    torturous events like burning in hell.
    Imagery Statistics
    The imagery used the most was visual, which was used
    about 15 times.
    The imagery used the least was gustatory and
    auditory, which were used about 2 times each.
    This was mostly because imagery was better in
    conveying how bad the flames and floods of God are.
    People are more scared of what they see because they
    see better than they hear, smell, touch, or even taste.
    This sermon was easily a scare tactic, and imagery
    works best in these cases.
    The End

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