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English, 07.05.2020 08:57 jimmymurray29

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 bumed."

Which best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful?

•Anaya uses words that lack emotional connotations to present a painful anecdote from his life.

•Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.

•Anaya establishes his credibility as a published Chicano author by referring to his first novel.

•Anaya delivers a passionate argument against the ability of school boards to ban books.

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