Question

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”

Answer 1

2. Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.

Answer 2

The following best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful:

2. Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.

Anaya uses adjectives to describe censorship, he describes it as direct and brutal. However, he builds his argument from a fact. A newspaper carrying a story that one of his novels was burned and banned from high school classes in Bloomfield. Finally, it is clear that censorship is a tool of the powerful with the fact that a board member was quoted saying that they took out the books and ensured that they were burned.