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:

The excerpt describes direct, brutal censorship (book burning) by a school board (a powerful entity) targeting a novel, which silences the author's voice (powerless). This vivid, shocking event evokes strong emotional reactions (outrage, concern) about the injustice of censorship, making appeal to emotion the most prominent rhetoric here.

Answer:

an appeal to emotion