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Why does Edwards believe that some of his congregation do not fear Hell?
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Edwards delivered his famous sermon during a revival movement intended to reinvigorate church attendance and bring more converts into the faith. He recognized that people were drifting away from church and relegating their faith to the background of their lives. The entire sermon is designed to shock listeners and instill a sense of urgency in their return to religion.
Edwards likely believed that Hell was an abstract notion to many of his listeners, and so he loaded the sermon with horrifying sense imagery to try to convince the congregation that Hell was a concrete place of eternal tortures.
This is situational irony
situational irony is when something is expected to happen but the something else occurs. In this case it is Romeo try to win over Rosaline, but then falls for Juliet.
Answer: A. The hopeful actors agreed to meet in the dressing room before the audition.
Explanation: An adverb phrase is simply a phrase that acts as an adverb to describe a verb, adverb, or adjective. Adverb phrases typically answer the questions how, where, why or when something was done. From the given options, the sentence that contains an adverbial phrase is the corresponding to option A: The hopeful actors agreed to meet in the dressing room before the audition, the adverbial phrase "before the audition" answer the question "when."
