Read the excerpt from "take the tortillas out of your poetry." in other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. on february 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, bless me, ultima. the book was banned from high school classes in bloomfield, new mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: "we took the books out and personally saw that they were burned." which type of rhetoric most shows how powerful people use censorship to silence the powerless? a. an appeal to emotion b. an appeal to ethics c. an appeal to logic d. an appeal to the author’s character

For me, the type of rhetoric that most shows how powerful people use censorship to silence the powerless is A: an appeal to emotion.

Explanation:

After reading this excerpt from Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry, we feel for the burning of the books. The reason why the author tells this experience is to create in the reader the feeling of sadness; the burning of the books, any books, is a very meaningful sign that symbolizes how powerful people use censorship to silence the ones that try to express or show different positions/believes/experiences and don't have a strong voice yet. This is exposed in the text and appeals to the emotions of the reader because of the power of the symbol that the action of burning books are.

to leave the reader thinking and wandering on their own. without a resolution we are clueless to what happens next, and why it does. it may even cause suspension with the reader.

explanation:

you didn't list the options but im guessing it's resolving contradictions