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

 Anaya uses a combination of ethos, logos and pathos to make this argument.

Ethos-- establishing credibility, and a sense of helping the reader to understand truth.

Logos-- presenting facts and using logic.

Pathos-- appealing to emotions, getting the reader to feel happy, fearful, angry, sad (etc.) about the issue.

Explanation:

Ethos: For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment.

Logos: To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone.

Ethos: No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that is what is happening in many areas in this country today.

Pathos: There are those who think they know best what we should read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.

i would lay on the ground, and wait for the earth to simply take me back!

- sincerely, ouma