Jonathan Edwards uses a lot of figurative language in his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. He uses simile, metaphor, and personification in order to create more of an impact on his audience. A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, or than. A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of words of comparison. Lastly, personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human characteristics. Edwards uses these key figures of speech in order to create a strikingly emotional picture in the minds of his readers.

Jonathan Edwards writes about the consequences of committing a sin in his sermon. Because Edwards was a Puritan, he had an unwavering belief in the sinfulness of...