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 best describes how anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful?

• anaya uses words that lack emotional connotations to present a painful anecdote from his life.
• anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books
• anaya establishes his credibility as a published chicano author by referring to his first novel
• anaya delivers a passionate argument against the ability of school boards to ban books

Explanation:

El autor presenta hechos de un artículo de periódico sobre miembros de la junta escolar quemando sus libros. Esto es un uso efectivo de la retórica, ya que los hechos son objetivos y difíciles de refutar. Presentar un evento real y documentado (el artículo de periódico) demuestra que la censura (en este caso, la quema de libros) es un acto real y no una idea abstracta. Además, la cita de un miembro de la junta escolar ("We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned") agrega credibilidad al relato, ya que es una declaración directa de alguien involucrado en el acto de censura.

Answer:

Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.