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Read the excerpt from Rudolfo Anaya's essay "Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry."
Tortillas and poetry. They go hand in hand. Books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. Our distinct cultures
nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we
become freer and freer
I don't know anyone who doesn't like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many
of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. I travel to foreign countries, and I know more about
myself as I learn more about my fellow human beings. Censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that
activity can be justified by no one.
Which phrase from the excerpt best uses persuasion?
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"Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us"
"just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas”

The phrase from the excerpt which best uses persuasion is, 'Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us.'

Explanation:

Persuasion is an act of persuading someone, of making people believe in something. The following excerpt describes the how culture is something which unites people.

The phrase 'Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us' is most persuasive compared to the rest, mainly because of its effective use of rhetoric device.

In the phrase, the author have made use of first person pronouns 'our' and 'us', and use of such pronouns gives the readers a sense of attachment, and thus they feel included. This in turn persuades them to take action.

''Our distinct cultures nourish each one of us.''

Explanation:

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.