Edwards uses personification in this following instance: “there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor any thing to take hold of, there is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of god that holds you up.” identify the personification. explain the function (effect) this image has on the audience. how can this edwards achieve his purpose?

The personification can be found in the phrase "There is hell's wide gaping mouth open". The function of this personification is to affirm that the human being is always one step away from entering hell and there is nothing, except God, to prevent this.

Edward's goal was to show people that everyone is a sinner and so they are not free from going to hell. When he says that the mouth of hell is wide open, he means that hell is waiting for all of us, but only God can get us out of there.

Explanation:

Personification is the figure of speech that allows inanimate objects to have human characteristics.

As we know, hell is not a living being, it is not a human being and therefore has no mouth. However, in the text above, we can see that Edward claims, that hell has its mouth wide open and that there is nothing we can do to prevent us from falling into it.

Edward uses the term "mouth of hell" to represent the gates of hell. He wants to tell his audience that the door to hell is open to sinners and there is nothing that can be done to keep them from going to hell. If we are sinners, we enter through that door and only God can prevent it.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)