Question

Read the excerpts from "Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry and

My friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of
receiving a fellowship. He took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of Spanish,
English, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. In other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which
is to say he took the soul out of his poetry
At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas
booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, "I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel so lonely for one." And
the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head.
Which structural element is used in the excerpt by Anaya but not in the excerpt by
pathos
anecdote
tone
logos

Answer 1

The structural element that is used in the excerpt by Anaya but not in the excerpt by Nye is logos. The right answer is Option D.

Step-by-step explanation:

This literary device or structural element is descried as a sentence, statement or argument and is used to persuade the reader or the audience by introducing points based on reason or logic. This rhetorical device is one of the “modes of persuasion” which other than citing only facts, uses statistical, historical and literal analogies to convince the reader. The same gets completely expressed in the excerpt by Anaya and not in the one by Nye.