Question

1. answer the questions in full sentences using evidence from the text

source a inca noble’s appeal (from felipe guaman poma de ayala, c. 1615)
context: this text is from a nearly 1,200 - page letter written by an indigenous inca nobleman to king philip iii of spain. he adopted spanish customs and writing to argue for justice for his people.
to your majesty,
i, don felipe guaman poma de ayala, say: that i am a legitimate (real) descendant (successor/child) of the kings and princes of this kingdom... i am a christian... and a friend to the poor.
i wish to inform your majesty of the injustices (evil actions)... in this kingdom, committed against the poor indians. the spanish corregidores (governors), priests, and encomenderos (landowners) do nothing but seize the indians’ property and wives and daughters... they force them to work in the mines, from which they never return. they beat them and do not pay them...
because of this, the indians are fleeing (leaving in fear) their towns. they are leaving their fields. the land is becoming depopulated.
i ask your majesty to correct these evils. for the love of god, and for your own conscience, you must protect your indian subjects. they are your treasure. if they are destroyed, your kingdom will be destroyed.

who is the author?	what rhetorical strategy are they using? how do you know (use evidence from the text)?(ethos, pathos, logos)	why are they using this rhetorical strategy? (in other words, what is their main goal?)

Explanation:

For the "Who is the author?" question, the text's source and the table's first cell show the author is Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an Inca nobleman. For the rhetorical strategy, Pathos is used as the text describes the suffering of Indians (seizure of property, forced mining, etc.) to evoke emotion, and he frames Indians as the king’s treasure to make the king feel guilty. For the goal, he aims to persuade King Philip III to correct injustices against Indians, as he asks the king to protect them, stating their destruction would destroy the kingdom.

Answer:

• Who is the author?

Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an Inca nobleman

• What Rhetorical Strategy are they using? How do you know (use evidence from the text)? (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)

Pathos. Evidence: The text describes the suffering of Indians (e.g., “seize the Indians’ property and wives and daughters… force them to work in the mines, from which they never return. They beat them and do not pay them”) and frames Indians as “your treasure” to evoke the king’s empathy/guilt.

• Why are they using this Rhetorical Strategy? (In other words, what is their main goal?)

His main goal is to persuade King Philip III to correct the injustices against the Indian people (e.g., stop exploitation, protect them), as he argues their destruction would destroy the kingdom.