For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberati

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For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberati

on, 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

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Anuta_ua [19.1K] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-24T14:55:03+03:00

Answer: an appeal to emotion

Explanation:

Rhetoric simply means the art of writing or persuasive speaking which is used in informing or persuading the audience.

Based on the excerpt, the type of rhetoric that is used to convince readers that censors have unjust motives is the appeal to emotion.

Appeal to emotion refers to an informal fallacy whereby the emotions of the audience is being manipulated by the speaker when there's no factual evidence in order to convince the audience or win an argument.