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 type of rhetoric is used most in this excerpt to convince readers that censors have unjust motives?
an appeal to emotion
an appeal to ethics
an appeal to the author’s character
an appeal to logic

Explanation:

To determine the rhetoric, we analyze each option:

• Appeal to emotion: The excerpt uses phrases like "path toward liberation and fulfillment", "no one has the right to keep you from reading" to evoke feelings about freedom and injustice of censorship, aiming to emotionally connect readers to the idea that censors act unjustly.
• Appeal to ethics: Focuses on moral principles, but the excerpt is more about emotional connection to freedom than ethical rules.
• Appeal to author’s character: Relies on author’s credibility, but the excerpt doesn’t emphasize the author’s traits.
• Appeal to logic: Uses facts/reasoning, but the excerpt is more emotional than logical.

So the most used rhetoric is an appeal to emotion.

Answer:

an appeal to emotion