Aphra Behn and John Milton use different persuasive measures convince us to agree with their respective agendas.  Aphra spends a large portion of Oroonoko conveying the reality of her experiences.  She is doing her best to create an illusion, which she claims is true, that elicits from us the correct emotional response.  She evokes this response in a subtle way by not commanding our attention of the subject, but rather enticing us into her perspective.  In the first few paragraphs of the story Aphra illustrates how different culture and society is in the colonies, “these people represented… the first state of innocence”, “it seems as if they had no wishes”, to make us sense the exotic peculiarity of this world and the inherent alienation it introduces.  Aphra is carefully creating the response she wants in her reader.  She seeks to “caress ‘em” into her understanding, just as the Englishmen entice the South American people with their knowledge, and coexisting with them, instead of dominating and commanding them.  Conversely, at times, Milton interrupts his eloquent writing with forthright statements about what the reader’s opinions or feelings should be.  This is most apparent in the first two books, in which Satan is very prominent, and Milton often interrupts his words to remind the reader that Satan is wholly evil.  Milton is using a hammer to get his point across, while Behn tries to softly sway our point of view.