What do all of the following men have in common?

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What do all of the following men have in common?

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Malcolm X
• Charles Manson
• Barack Obama
• John McCain
• Adolf Hitler
• Joseph Stalin

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Literary Skills

• Sermon A speech that has a definite point of
  view and is delivered from the pulpit during a
  worship service
• Oratory Public speaking that is formal and
  persuasive and that appeals to the emotions.
• Types of persuasion used in Edwards Sermon
• Appeal to emotion, i.e. Fear
• Appeal to emotion, i.e. Uncertainty

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Literary Skills

• Figures of speech describe on thing in terms of
  another, very different thing.
• Context Clues information from the text that
  helps identify a word or word group hints or
  suggestions that may surround unfamiliar words or
  phrases and clarify their meaning.

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Using Context Clues

• You are ten thousand times more abominable in
  his Gods eyes, than the most hateful venomous
  serpent in ours

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Context Clues cont.

• you are every day treasuring up more wrath the
  waters are constantly rising, and waxing more and
  more mighty

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Context Clues cont.

• The God that holds you over the pit of Hell,
  much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome
  insect over the fire, abhors you, and is
  dreadfully provoked

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Context Clues cont

• It is only the power and mere pleasure of God
  that holds you up. You are probably not sensible
  of this you find you are kept out of Hell, but
  do not see the hand of God in this.

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Context Clues cont

• It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and
  bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that
  you are held over in the hand of that God, whose
  wrath is provoked and incensed as much against
  you, as against many of the damned in Hell.

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Context Clues cont

• You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of
  divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every
  moment to singe it, burn it asunder.

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Context Clues cont

• He will not forbear the executions of his wrath,
  or in the least lighten his hand there shall be
  no moderation or mercy.

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Context Clues cont

• There will be no end to this exquisite horrible
  misery. When you look forward, you shall see a
  long forever, a boundless duration before you,
  which will swallow up your thoughts and amaze
  your soul.