Television Revision

The central idea of the poem: TV , according to the poet is

• an entertaining box

• a imaginative box

• an idiot box

TV kills ...

• monster

• children

• imagination. creativity

TV turns the children ....... , thus they ....... and ..... and ....

• smart, sleep , dance, eat

• dull, loll, slop, lounge

• dull, curious, imaginative, smart

TV makes the brain .....

• smart, soft , cool

• creative, dull, soft

• soft, rusts, freezes

TV helps children to travel to new exciting worlds of ....

• whales

• gypsies

• dragons

• queens

• prince

The rhyming scheme of the poem : TV is

• abcdef

• ab cd ab

• aa bb cc

Identify the literary device :

"IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD"

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Name the author of the children's story books?

• Harry Porter

• Sydney Porter

• Beatrix Potter

• Beatrix Porter

The poet, Roald Dahl uses words such as .... , ...., and ....sincerely appeals to the parents to throw away the TV sets.

• please, beg , pray

• order, beg, request

• commands, request, pleads

The poem is 'didactic" because it

• teaches parents to install the monster

• teaches parents to keep the TV box

• teaches parents about the negative impacts of TV on children