Abeka American Literature unit 10 review

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?

A spider

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

Selfishness Not True Religion

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

Employments of Heaven

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

Conjugal Harmony

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

They are too lazy to study it

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

Christianity

What is the wonderful temple that Billy Sunday preached about?

No

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

Why something is done is more important than what is done

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

I Saw God Wash the World

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

Treasures

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

My Advocate

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

The Bent Twig

Which poem shows the importance of training children about God?

God had a plan for our lives before time began

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

Jonathan Edwards

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

Charles G. Finney

Who preached "Selfishness Not True Religion"?

T. DeWitt Talmage

Who preached "Employments of Heaven"?

T. DeWitt Talmage

Who is the author of "Conjugal Harmony"?

Billy Sunday

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

Billy Sunday

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

R. G. Lee

Who preached "Evolution"?

A. W. Tozer

Who preached "The All-Importance of Motive"?

William L. Stidger

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

Martha Snell Nicholson

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

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

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

Simile

An expressed comparison of unlike things

Refrain

A phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals

Metaphor

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

Symbol

A meaning in itself which also represents another thing as well

Personification

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

Tone

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

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."

Selfishness Not True Religion

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

Conjugal Harmony

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

Nuts for Skeptics to Crack

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

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."

Evolution

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

Treasures

"That God COULD not pour His riches

Into hands already full!"

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 . . ."