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 type of rhetoric is used most in this excerpt to convince readers that censors have unjust motives?

an appeal to emotion
an appeal to ethics
an appeal to the author’s character
an appeal to logic

Answer 1

an appeal for logic

Answer 2

Answer:

The type of rhetoric used here is an “appeal to logic”.

Explanation:

An “appeal to logic” means a way of convincing the audience by reason. In this passage, the writer speaks about reading books and he says what we get through reading books there is a reason for everything he told. A rhetorical device uses words to expose meaning or to convey an idea. It is a technique used to wake up our emotions within the reader. Writers use different types of rhetorical devices in their work of art to communicate with the audience.