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1.
analogy
1) P4 The viewer is
on a perpetual guided tour; 30 minutes at the museum,
30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the
bus to the next attraction – except on television, …
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2.
rhetorical questions
1) P7 Who can quarrel with
a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment
as a mass-marketing tool?
2) P13 When before in human history
has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much
of its leisure to one toy, one mass deivesion?
3) P13 When before has virtually
an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium
for selling?
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3.
allusion
1) P6) … had bequeathed
to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television
shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
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4.
metaphor
1) P7 Who can quarrel with
a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment
as a mass-marketing tool?
2) P14 … force feeding on trivial
fare is not itself a trivial matter.
3) P14 … and I fear that … and
our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived.
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5.
simile
1) P8 Much of it is
what has been aptly described as “machine gunning with
scraps.”
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6.
litotes
1) P11 Literacy may not
be an inalinable human right, but it is one that the highly
literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable
or even unattainable.
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7.
antithesis
1) P12 Television’s variety
becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
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8.
parallelism
1) P3 It sells us instant
gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the
time pass without pain.
2) P9 Consider the casual assumptions that television
tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that
visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal
precisio is an anachronism.
3) P11 Everything about this nation – the structure of
the society, its forms of family organization, its economy,
its place in the world – has become more complex, not
less.
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