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Exploring Cultural Identity through Language — Quiz

Question 10 • English Language Arts 11

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?

Answer
A
an appeal to the author’s character
B
an appeal to logic
C
an appeal to emotion
D
an appeal to ethics

Explanation

The excerpt describes reading as a path to “liberation and fulfillment” and says censors keep people from reading. Those emotionally charged ideas encourage readers to feel that censorship is harmful and unfair, suggesting that censors have unjust motives. This is an appeal to emotion.

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