Question

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 best describes how Anaya uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censors want to limit what people can read?


(A)Anaya speaks about everyone’s right to read what they choose in order to appeal to the reader’s sense of fairness.
(B)Anaya presents documented facts about censors’ motivations in order to appeal to the reader’s sense of logic.
(C)Anaya discusses his lifelong love of reading in order to establish his expertise for the reader on the topic of censorship.
(D)Anaya refrains from stating a direct opinion in order to allow the reader to form one based on evidence from many areas of the country.

Answer 1

Answer:

A). Anaya speaks about everyone's right to read what they choose in order to appeal to the reader's sense of fairness.

Explanation:

Rhetorical appeals are characterized as the various techniques that the authors employ to convince the audience to accept and believe in the ideas proposed.

In the given excerpt, Anaya employs the rhetorical appeal of courtesy by talking about every individual's rights to freedom and fulfillment. This assists her in pleasing the audience's sense of justness that the claim proposed by him is fair and worthy. This reasoning makes them feel that she offers a logical argument and persuades them to believe in it. Thus, option A is the correct answer.