The issues would be that people want to change others cultures and, like in the Aztec culture (when there was Aztecs),the religion is too harsh and you were killed if you didn't accept their culture. <span />
His audience was mostly puritan as was the case in the 18th century. His audience was probably scared mindless because his sermons usually included scary and vivid description of suffering, hell, sins, the devil, which was all supposed to scare you into being a better christian.
Assonance I believe, it can’t be alliteration or relatiob to sound (onomatopoeia) neither does it rhyme.
Plus there’s repetition of the same vowels;
“where the winds like a whetted knife”
The answer to you question is D) properly