Abeka American Literature unit 10 review

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

What sermon illustrates that the only reason man is not thrown into hell instantly is God's mercy?

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A spider

What creature does Edwards use to illustrate how God holds us over the pit of hell?

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Selfishness Not True Religion

Which sermon says that to have a supreme regard for our own happiness is unlike God?

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Employments of Heaven

Which sermon discusses what departed friends are now doing in heaven?

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Conjugal Harmony

The importance of a happy home is the theme of what selection?

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They are too lazy to study it

According to "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack," why do some people not understand the Bible?

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Christianity

What is the wonderful temple that Billy Sunday preached about?

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No

According to R. G. Lee, is evolution scientific?

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Why something is done is more important than what is done

What is the theme of "The All-Importance of Motive"?

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I Saw God Wash the World

What poem gives a fresh outlook on God's creation after a storm?

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Treasures

Which poem says that God wants to bless us if we will let Him?

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My Advocate

What poem shows the conversation between Satan and Jesus over a Christian who had sinned?

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The Bent Twig

Which poem shows the importance of training children about God?

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God had a plan for our lives before time began

What is the theme of "Long and Long Ago"?

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Jonathan Edwards

Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

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Charles G. Finney

Who preached "Selfishness Not True Religion"?

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T. DeWitt Talmage

Who preached "Employments of Heaven"?

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T. DeWitt Talmage

Who is the author of "Conjugal Harmony"?

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Billy Sunday

What preacher was once a ball player that became one of the greatest revival preachers in America?

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Billy Sunday

Who preached "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack" and "This Wonderful Temple"?

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R. G. Lee

Who preached "Evolution"?

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A. W. Tozer

Who preached "The All-Importance of Motive"?

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William L. Stidger

Who wrote the poem "I Saw God Wash the World"?

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Martha Snell Nicholson

What poet was an invalid whom God used to write hundreds of poems of praise and encouragement?

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Treasures, My Advocate, The Bent Twig, Long and Long Ago

Name the four poems from the text written by Martha Snell Nicholson.

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Simile

An expressed comparison of unlike things

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Refrain

A phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals

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Metaphor

An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another

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Symbol

A meaning in itself which also represents another thing as well

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Personification

A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal

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Tone

The writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject and in turn the response which the writer intends for his readers

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

"The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given."

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Selfishness Not True Religion

"A supreme regard to our own happiness is inconsistent with true religion."

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Conjugal Harmony

"A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters—home!"

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Nuts for Skeptics to Crack

"Can to tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk?"

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Nuts for Skeptics to Crack

"I do not believe that grass and flowers and trees grew by chemical force any more than I believe that a book on botany describing flowers came from chemical forces."

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Evolution

"'You cannot be an informed Christian and a logical evolutionist.'"

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Treasures

"That God COULD not pour His riches

Into hands already full!"

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The Bent Twig

"The twig was bent, the tree inclined,

And so his heart and soul and mind

Found it too hard a thing to do . . ."

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