John Downe Rhetorical Analysis

This letter wrote it by John Downe illustrates a conversation to his wife to convince her to emigrate to the United States using many rhetorical strategies. In the line 43, he uses allegory to show a clear sentence meaning that he does not want them to suffer¨... and to see you and the dear children want was what I could not bear.¨ Downe uses the word want as lack. In the line 59, Downe uses simile to show freedom from every single person in the United States ¨This is a country where a man can stand as a man, and where he can enjoy the fruits of his own exertions, with rational liberty to its fullest extent. Downe illustrates, by this letter, that we all have to risk in order to success and find a better way to live, even if you have