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?
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an appeal to the author’s characterThe passage describes a novel being banned and burned, using forceful words such as “direct and brutal” and quoting a board member who says the books were burned. These details are meant to make readers feel anger or sadness about censorship, so the rhetoric is mainly an appeal to emotion. It is not primarily a logical argument supported by evidence or an appeal to the author’s character.
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