Question

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”

For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone. No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that is what is happening in many areas in this country today. There are those who think they know best what we should read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.

Which type of rhetoric is used most in this excerpt to convince readers that censors have unjust motives?
an appeal to emotion
an appeal to ethics
an appeal to the author’s character
an appeal to logic

Answer 1

EMOTION

Step-by-step explanation:

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”

For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone. No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that is what is happening in many areas in this country today. There are those who think they know best what we should read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.

To convince readers that censors have unjust motives, the author uses rhetoric to appeal mostly to EMOTION .

Answer 2

an appeal to emotion or "Pathos"

Step-by-step explanation:

The author is trying to gain a sort of sympathy from the reader towards the world we live in since it is depriving us of something essential