Question

What type of evidence does Schlosser use in this passage?

Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Malone, a film in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults.

—Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

Answer 1

Schlosser uses a figurative, illustrative form of evidence — an allusion/simile. By comparing fast-food kitchens to the film Bugsy Malone, he creates a vivid image to persuade the reader (rhetorical/imagery-based evidence), not a factual or statistical proof.