Aim. A writer’s aim is his or her purpose, or goal. People may write with the following aims: to inform; to entertain; to narrate (tell a story); to reflect; or to persuade. As you read, determine Adams’s primary aim in writing to her husband.
Diction. Diction, when applied to writing, refers to word choice. Ask yourself if Adams uses formal or informal diction when writing to her husband.
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Abigail Adams wrote the following letter to her husband, John, then a delegate to the First Continental Congress. The letter was written shortly before the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when members of the Congress were debating whether to declare the colonies’ independence from Britain.
When did you last write a letter, and why did you write it?
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