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    fight!" Emotional and logical appeal plays a great part in the "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" and the "Speech in the Virginia convention". The emotions in both of these speeches bring them to life by the use of repetition‚ rhetorical questions‚ and imagery. Patrick Henry and Jonathan Edwards both apply similar persuasive techniques‚ but they differ in the type of appeal to their audiences. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses repetition‚ rhetorical questions‚ and imagery to create a

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    The text’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚ by Jonathan Edwards‚ and The Minister’s Black Veil‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne both have pretty similar subjects. Both texts talk about preachers and sins‚ and how sinning is bad‚ and you can’t try to cover up your sins‚ it will just bring you down. The theme in both texts are pretty similar. One theme in The Minister’s Black Veil is that you can’t try to cover up your sins‚ it will just bring you down. In lines 39-40 of the text it says‚ “With this gloomy

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    Persuasive techniques are commonly used when speaking in the hopes of bringing another to their side in a conversation. Reginald Rose creates a list of goals that he hopes to achieve in the writing of Twelve Angry Men‚ and uses these to incorporate certain persuasive techniques in the speaking of others in the story. By observing the most essential goals of evidence remembered and juror to juror relationships‚ Juror Eight most successfully uses ethos as a persuasive technique. While using this technique

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    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Summary and Analysis From http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/37806/a_look_at_sinners_in_the_hands_of_an_pg2.html?cat=38 The Puritans of early America were constantly reminded of the consequences of sinning. One such dynamic pastor of the time was Jonathan Edwards whose mission was to convert and convince his congregation of sinners. He did this through his powerful sermons. In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚" Edwards uses several rhetorical

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    Hand of God The documentary “Hand of God” was brisk and eye opening portrayal of child molestation of young boys carried out at the hands of Catholic Priest. For years many children have been quietly molested under the fallacy of protecting the Church. Paul Cultrera keep quiet about his victimization for years‚ which allowed for Father Birmingham to continue to molest others. There were a couple of theories that I felt applied to certain scenarios in this documentary while there were also others

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    In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”’ Jonathan Edwards uses appeal to fear to help his audience experience the consequences of sinful behavior. One such image is when Jonathan says “ a wide and bottomless pit‚ full of the fire of wrath‚ that you are held over in the hand of that God…..nothing you can do‚ to induce God to spare you one moment…”. Edwards is trying to make you imagine that you are been held by God over the pit of hell. This appeals to fear by creating anxiety of not knowing when

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    Jonathan Edwards uses the three appeals pathos‚ logos‚ and ethos in his sermon “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” to persuade unconverted members of the congregation to become born again through Christ. He uses pathos‚ which is emotional appeals to evoke the audience’s emotions such as fear‚ anger‚ sadness‚ and many more. By using connotative diction‚ syntax‚ and personal anecdotes he is able to create an emotional appeal. Edwards uses logical appeals‚ which is logos to appeal to the audience’s

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    Out of the numerous techniques that are available for writers‚ persuasive and literary techniques are most commonly used in writings like Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and Barack Obama’s election night victory speech. “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” has many examples of each type of persuasive techniques‚ and it includes literary techniques like allusions and figurative language. When King states that Birmingham is one of the most thoroughly segregated cities in

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    " Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God " Essay Often in sermons ministers persuade their audience to behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such is the case in Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" where he big time wanted to impact his audience by appealing to the fears ‚ pity and vanity.Edward had a Tremendous impact on his puritan audience because of his angry tone‚ vivid imagery and use of expressive figurative language. In" Sinners

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    |Persuasive Technique |Example |Why used (Purposes) | |Images or figurative language |‘Logging is creating smouldering‚ |If readers can visualise the problem | |Painting a word picture of a scene or |air-polluting wastelands.’ |through the writer’s words‚ they may be | |action; using similes‚ metaphors‚ |‘You can’t ban boxing. The horse has |more likely to support his or

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