The devil is waiting for them, hell is gapping for them.. the flames.. wallow them up (Edwards, 46).He is giving hell human qualities.
Sinners in the Hand of an angry God: Personification
The spider hanging over a pit of fire ( Edwards 48). This symbolizes how small we are in comparison to God.
Symbolism
Edwards repeadidly used the Word Wrath throughout his sermon this was used to Provo-ck fear in the people who heard him. "The wrath of God burns against them..."(Edwards)
Repetition
Im waiting for your
"Haste and escape from your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed" (Edwards 50). He is visually describing a place you can go to not be consumed by the flames.
Imagery
Oh sinner! consider the fear ful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath...(Edwards 8). Its compareing the sinners danger to a furnace of wrath without useing like or as.
Metaphors
"Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead..."(Edwards 4). He is comparing human wickedness to lead by useing "as".