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 excerpt describes a novel being banned and its books deliberately burned, using vivid, forceful details to make readers feel outrage and sympathy. This is an appeal to emotion, or pathos. It does not mainly rely on evidence or reasoning, so “an appeal to logic” is not the best choice.
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