Question

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?
an appeal to emotion
an appeal to ethics
an appeal to the author’s character
an appeal to logic

Answer 1

an appeal to emotion

The passage uses charged words and ideas—"liberation," "No one has the right," "censors"—to provoke feelings about freedom and injustice rather than relying on facts or the author's authority.