Poor+Richards+Almanack

· The time period is 1750s and it affected the literary style because it was more like a small version of a newspaper but is in pamphlet form so it was more information and it had data and various statistics. · Franklin’s purpose in writing Poor Richard’s Almanack was that he wanted people to see how it was to live in this time, and to inform the people of the 1750s about things they wanted to know about. · The literary techniques that Franklin employ in achieving his purpose was to explain what was going on around the colonies. · The literature characteristics of the time period were based on what would be good to do to live a healthy life.