Amanda Ford
Ms. Drosdick
Language Arts, per. 6
12/26/17
Roald Dahl.
26 years after his death, and almost everyone knows the name Roald Dahl. In life he was nicknamed the children's champion, and for good reason. His wonderfully fantastical children's books have fueled the imaginations of generations of children; If you've never read Roald Dahl, then you've never had a childhood. Although more well known for his books, his poetry is no less impressive, and this is proved by "Television", a piece of poetry written by Dahl in 1961, when home television sets were starting to takeoff. In "Television", Dahl, suspicious of the new technology, expressed his concern on how television was affecting the minds of children. In this lighthearted social commentary, Dahl expresses his view on television, an "imagination killer" that , while books allow imagination to breathe, television kills it.
“Television” begins with Dahl assuring parents that the way in which you can fail your child is to set them down in front of a television set. Dahl claims that you should “never, NEVER, …show more content…
Throughout “Television”, Roald Dahl repeatedly utilizes Hyperbole, Personification and Metaphor to make sure his main idea is effectively communicated. An example of hyperbole would be line 12:” Last week in someone's place we found a dozen eyeballs on the floor” . Obviously, your eyes will not pop out as a result of too much television. This is just an exaggeration to help portray the dangerousness of television. Personification is present in lines 22 through 30 in which Roald Dahl asks what exactly television does to your kids. This implies that the television has a consciousness and is consciously harming innocent children.even though it's really just a machine doing its job. We meet metaphor in line 15: “they sit and stare and stare and sit… until they’re absolutely
Ms. Drosdick
Language Arts, per. 6
12/26/17
Roald Dahl.
26 years after his death, and almost everyone knows the name Roald Dahl. In life he was nicknamed the children's champion, and for good reason. His wonderfully fantastical children's books have fueled the imaginations of generations of children; If you've never read Roald Dahl, then you've never had a childhood. Although more well known for his books, his poetry is no less impressive, and this is proved by "Television", a piece of poetry written by Dahl in 1961, when home television sets were starting to takeoff. In "Television", Dahl, suspicious of the new technology, expressed his concern on how television was affecting the minds of children. In this lighthearted social commentary, Dahl expresses his view on television, an "imagination killer" that , while books allow imagination to breathe, television kills it.
“Television” begins with Dahl assuring parents that the way in which you can fail your child is to set them down in front of a television set. Dahl claims that you should “never, NEVER, …show more content…
Throughout “Television”, Roald Dahl repeatedly utilizes Hyperbole, Personification and Metaphor to make sure his main idea is effectively communicated. An example of hyperbole would be line 12:” Last week in someone's place we found a dozen eyeballs on the floor” . Obviously, your eyes will not pop out as a result of too much television. This is just an exaggeration to help portray the dangerousness of television. Personification is present in lines 22 through 30 in which Roald Dahl asks what exactly television does to your kids. This implies that the television has a consciousness and is consciously harming innocent children.even though it's really just a machine doing its job. We meet metaphor in line 15: “they sit and stare and stare and sit… until they’re absolutely