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?
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an appeal to the author’s characterThe author describes reading as a path to “liberation and fulfillment” and says that censors are keeping people from it. This language encourages readers to feel that censorship is harmful and unfair, so the excerpt relies most on an appeal to emotion. It does not mainly use evidence or logical reasoning to prove the censors’ motives.
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