read the excerpt from \take the tortillas out of your poetry.\\nin other cases, the censoring has been…

read the excerpt from \take the tortillas out of your poetry.\\nin 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.\\nwhich type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?\nan appeal to emotion\nan appeal to ethics\nan appeal to logic\nan appeal to the authors character

read the excerpt from \take the tortillas out of your poetry.\\nin 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.\\nwhich type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?\nan appeal to emotion\nan appeal to ethics\nan appeal to logic\nan appeal to the authors character

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Brief Explanations:

The author presents a factual event (the burning of the book) and a direct quote from a school board member. This is a logical presentation of evidence (the action of banning and burning the book) to show how censorship (by the powerful school board) silences (as the book can't be taught) the less - powerful (the author and potentially the students who could have benefited from the book). It's not an appeal to emotion (no use of highly emotional language to sway feelings), not an appeal to ethics (no discussion of moral right - wrong in a philosophical sense), and not an appeal to the author's character (no highlighting of the author's personal virtues or qualities).

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an appeal to logic