Question

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

Answer 1

Factual evidence is used to appeal to the reader’s sense of logic describes the rhetorical appeal used in illustrating the destructive nature of censorship.

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

Rudolf Anaya in his poem ‘Take the tortilla out of the poetry’ establishes strong evidence against the censorship of multi-cultural writers and their works. Anaya emphasizes that in the early 1960’s, the books written in another language depicting a different culture, other than English, were banned.

He explains that this was because the books might not be understandable and have no significance to the ‘universal readers’. He supports his argument by providing the evidence of burning his Spanish book in the school by the censor board.