Landy Mary Wortley Montagu Letter Analysis

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In her letter about her experiences in the small Turkish town of Sophia, Landy Mary Wortley Montagu uses a description rhetorical mode to describe the beauty of a culture, welcoming diction to convey the kindness of the Turkish women at the hot baths, a comparison and contrast expository mode to highlight cultural differences with her home country, and appeal to ethos by establishing common ground with the recipient, in order to entertain the letter’s recipient and inform her about the occurrences of the small town. Montagu uses a description rhetorical mode to inform her recipient about some of the beautiful details that she saw in Sophia and give her an overall impression of the town. In the second paragraph, she describes the coaches that