Question

read the excerpt from take the tortillas out of your poetry.
in other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. on february 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, bless me, ultima. the book was banned from high school classes in bloomfield, new mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: we took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.
which type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?
an appeal to emotion
an appeal to ethics
an appeal to logic
an appeal to the authors character

Explanation:

The burning of the book is a harsh and emotional act. An appeal to emotion uses feelings like anger, sadness, or outrage. Here, the direct and brutal act of burning the book (a form of censorship) is described in a way that evokes strong emotions, showing how the powerful (the school board member) use such extreme (and emotionally charged) actions (burning) to silence (by banning) the work (the novel, representing the author's voice - the powerless in this context of censorship). An appeal to ethics would be about moral right - wrong. An appeal to logic would use facts and reasoning. An appeal to the author's character is not relevant here.

Answer:

an appeal to emotion