Question

Read the excerpt from "The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify. Now, things changed when I discovered African books.

What is the most likely reason Adichie uses an appeal to logos?

It emphasizes the need to make African books available to all readers.
It shows the importance of books about foreign characters and foreign events.
It reveals how easy it is to become enthralled with things in foreign books and forget personal culture.
It points out the limited conclusions that can be made when people are exposed to only one type of book.

Answer 1

It points out the limited conclusions that can be made when people are exposed to only one type of book.

Justification: Adichie uses a logical cause-and-effect statement (limited reading → mistaken belief) to show how a narrow set of examples leads to an incorrect generalization.