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 author’s character

Explanation:

To determine the rhetoric, analyze each option:

• Appeal to emotion: The excerpt describes the direct, brutal censorship (burning of a novel, banning from schools). This evokes feelings of outrage, injustice, or sympathy, highlighting the powerful silencing the powerless via emotional impact.
• Appeal to ethics: Focuses on moral principles, but the excerpt is more about emotional impact of censorship than ethical arguments.
• Appeal to logic: Uses facts/reasoning, but the excerpt’s power is in emotional imagery (burning books) rather than logic.
• Appeal to author’s character: Relates to credibility, but the excerpt uses the event’s emotional weight, not author’s character.

So the appeal to emotion best shows the powerful silencing the powerless through evoking emotional response to censorship.

Answer:

an appeal to emotion