A few days ago
Anonymous

Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God. questions.?

“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 thats used in this passage.

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A few days ago
Computer Genius

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Simile – The sovereign pleasure of God, for the present, stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come like a whirlwind,

Metaphor – it is a great furnace of wrath

Allusion? (not to sure of) – You hang by a slender thread,

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A few days ago
truefirstedition
Allusion – “furnace of wrath” – could be the fiery furnace from the Bible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiery_furnace)

or “the many damned in Hell” – allusion to Dante’s Inferno?

Simile – “you would be like chaff”

metaphor – the fearful danger is “a wide and bottomless pit”

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