Both Abigail Adams and Sojourner Truth exemplify strong language in their arguments for women's rights. Adams and Truth begin each of their pro-women's rights claims by using rhetorical questions to grasp their reader's attention and make them ponder. In her letter to her husband, John Adams, Abigail Adams uses a personal tone in order to make John Adams feel her emotions as if they were alone in the same room. At the same time, she elongates her letter with composure and straightforward words and phrases in order to focus merely on the most important topic to her: women's rights. On the other hand, Truth is speaking her claims on women’s rights to a more broad audience. She uses the rhetorical appeal of pathos to get her message out,