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?
○ anaya speaks about everyone’s right to read what they choose in order to appeal to the reader’s sense of fairness
○ anaya presents documented facts about censors’ motivations in order to appeal to the reader’s sense of logic
○ anaya discusses his lifelong love of reading in order to establish his expertise for the reader on the topic of censorship.
○ 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.

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze each option:

• Option 1: Anaya talks about everyone’s right to read, which relates to fairness (appeal to ethos/ sense of justice). The excerpt says “No one has the right to keep you from reading” – this is about fairness in access to reading.
• Option 2: The excerpt has no “documented facts” about censors’ motivations, so this is incorrect.
• Option 3: Anaya’s “lifelong love of reading” isn’t used to establish expertise on censorship; the focus is on rights, not his expertise.
• Option 4: Anaya does state his opinion (about censors limiting reading), so this is wrong.

So the correct option is the first one as it matches the rhetorical appeal to fairness.

Answer:

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