Below each of the passages from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, list the type of literary device(s) employed and explain how the passage exemplifies the device(s).
1. Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment...There are black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder, and were it not for the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon you.
A: Imagery and repetition are employed. "...black clouds of God's wrath...full of dreadful storm, and big with thunder" creates a word picture, and the repetition of "were it not" is an example of the repeated use of any element of language.
2. The wrath of God is like great waves that are damned for the present.
A: Simile is employed. The passage makes a comparison between the wrath of God and great waters using like.
3. Now they see, that those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows.
A: Metaphor is employed. "Those things on which they depended for peace and safety" are spoken of as if it were something else. In this case, "thin air and empty shadows."
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