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Compare Jonathan Edwards to William Bradford in their role in American Literature.

How does the description of God in Jonathan Edwards' sermon compare with the God of religions you are familiar with?

What is an example of a metaphor in "Personal Narrative" by Jonathan Edwards?

How does Jonathan Edwards’s Personal Narrative serve as a model to his audience? How, if at all, does it confer Edwards’s potential authority over his audience?

What inspired Jonathan Edwards to write?

In comparing Jonathan Edwards' Personal Narrative and Parts One and Two only of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, use four quotes to demonstrate a preference for one over the other. 

Compare "God Glorified in Man's Dependence" by Jonathan Edwards and "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

How does Edwards serve as a model to his audience in his "Personal Narrative"?

What persuasive elements are present in Jonathan Edwards's speech "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," and which elements are most effective?

What other things did Jonathan Edwards do besides writing? Did he play sports or did he just spend most of his time reading or idk?  

How did Jonathan Edwards, through his writings, attempt to bring lapsed church members back into the fold?

How would one write a rhetorical précis on Jonathan Edwards’s “Personal Narrative”?