original_query: What are some characteristics of the Native American's writings?
query: What are some characteristics of the Creek Nation's oral traditions and speeches as described by James Oglethorpe?
answer: According to James Oglethorpe, Creek speeches often used similes and metaphors.  When addressing young men, they appealed to passions; when speaking to elders, they used reason.  Their speeches were sometimes concise, other times elaborate and eloquent, comparable to those of the Greeks and Romans.