In the letter that John Downe wrote to his wife and children he used imagery,tone,and diction.With these rhetorical devices he appeals to his family to come emigrate to the United States and join him. John uses imagery to convey his wife to see the differences between England and the U.S. By stating what they had on the table which was"pudding,pyes,and fruit all kind that was in season,and preservers,pickles,vegetables,meat,and everything that a person wished,and that the servants sat dwob at the same table with their masters".This lures his wife to think about what the U.S offers and that England doesn't have. Downe mentions in his letters that he "would rather cross the Atlantic ten times than hear his children cry for victual once." Downe
