Question

Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words, such as "Sally sells seashells by the seashore." Find and write two of Edwards alliterative phrases. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Answer 1

Answer:

1. ...if God should only withdraw his hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God would rush forth with inconceivable fury...

2. ...and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea, ten thousand times greater than the strength of the stoutest, sturdiest devil...

Explanation:

Alliteration refers to the use of a particular letter of the alphabet in a string of words in a phrase. Jonathan Edwards who was a remarkable preacher at his time made extensive use of this figure of speech in his work, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God to make important points which he wanted the reader to remember.

Alliteration is seen in the first phrase above where he explained that it was as a result of God's mercy that humans have not faced his fiery wrath. Letter f was used. In the second phrase, he explained that the strength of humans could not be matched with that of the least devil in hell. The s letter was used for alliteration.