In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards, what are specific similes and metaphors used in the sermon to persuade?

uses the
emotional appeal of fear to persuade his audience that they should turn to God. A first way he
does this is through the image of hell. He does this in athat suggests hell is a burning pit of
fire that God holds his people over and is ready to drop them at any moment:

O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: 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.

You can see this is also
a metaphor of hell to mean a furnace... it must be hot.

A good is in this next quote:

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.

Both of these quotes paint a picture of God
that is mean as if He wants to doom people to hell. If I were in that audience at that time and
heard Edwards utter this fire and brimstone sermon, I think I would have been fearfully
persuaded too.