1. Journal:
How do you persuade someone to believe something or to do what you want him/her to do? Explain. Also, give examples of things you sometimes want from someone or something you want someone to do.

2. Objectives:
To relate main ideas in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to its historical and cultural setting.
To understand rhetorical techniques.
To understand how to write an analytical essay.

3. Today’s Agenda:
Discuss journal
Notes on rhetorical techniques
Read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” pp
Complete handout

4. Rhetoric:
The art of the use of language to present facts and ideas to persuade.

5. Analogy:
A comparison that shows similarities between two things that are otherwise disisimilar.

6. Anecdote:
A brief story based on a single interesting event from a person’s life.

7. Argument:
A statement of opinion about a problem or an issue and the support for that statement.

8. Connotation:
The suggested or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.

9. Parallelism:
The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical structure.

10. Repetition:
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.