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 best describes how Anaya uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censors want to limit what people can
read?

A. Anaya speaks about everyone's right to read what they choose in order to appeal to the reader's sense of fairness.

B. Anaya presents documented facts about censors' motivations in order to appeal to the reader's sense of logic.

C. Anaya discusses his lifelong love of reading in order to establish his expertise for the reader on the topic of
censorship

D. Anaya refrains from stating a direct opinion in order to allow the reader to form one based on evidence from many
areas of the country.

Answer 1

The answer is A. Anaya speaks about everyone's right to read what they choose in order to appeal to the reader's sense of fairness.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this excerpt, Rudolfo Anaya who is the author of this work explains the importance of avoiding and stoping censorship. Additionally, the author provides arguments such as "To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation" that suggests the action of reading and selecting freely what to read is related to rights and freedom and by limiting this, the rights and freedoms are limited. This argument appeals to the sense of fairness in the reader who would likely oppose this limitation of freedoms and support Anaya's point of view about censorship. Thus, option A describes the rhetorical appeal Anaya uses.