What are 3 rhetorical techniques used in the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God? Are there any examples of figurative language as well?

Edwards uses

symbolism when he says that:

As he that walks in slippery places is every
moment liable to fall, he cannot foresee
one moment whether he shall stand or
fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once
without
warning.

He uses this example to describe
how,
just as one might physically slip and fall suddenly and without warning,
people who have not
accepted Christ and the gift of his grace are just as apt
to slip and fall, spiritually, and
without warning as wellexcept they will
slip and fall into the pits of Hell.

He uses
when he continues this point, saying that these

people:

are liable to fall of themselves, without
being
thrown down by the hand of another; as he that stands or walks on
slippery ground needs nothing
but his own weight to throw him down.

Another person
might throw us to the ground, but
that is not what will happen here; when we are spiritually
"thrown down," it
will be by our own weight. This personifies our "weight"
as something that
can act of its own accord and will, emphasizing how much we are ultimately

responsible for our own spiritual destruction by choosing not to hearken to Edwards (and
to
God).

Edwards uses a when
he says:

Though hand join in hand, and
vast multitudes of God's enemies
combine and associate themselves, they are
easily broken in pieces. They are as great heaps of
light chaff before the
whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring

flames.

He compares God's enemies to chaff in the
wind or
cut crops that have dried out, burning up in a fire. (Even his
description of "flames"
as being "devouring" contains another use of
personification.)

Rhetorically, Edwards clearly uses a
great number of
allusions to the Bible. He can
refer, even very indirectly, to
itsecure that his audience will be familiar
with his references and find them convincing. He
employs logos
(i.e., reasoning with his listeners and trying to
persuade
them to convert), outlining the ways in which the Bible (a book of history for
him)
describes God's power and plans for the unbelievers. He also
employs
pathosusing expressions and language
meant to inspire fearin an
attempt to persuade his audience to
convert.