Of course, there is nothing wrong with playing peek-a-boo. And there is nothing wrong with entertainment.
As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the air. The problems come when we try to live in
them. The communications media of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with telegraphy
and photography at their center, called the peek-a-boo world into existence, but we did not come to live
there until television. Television gave the epistemological biases of the telegraph and the photograph their
most potent expression, raising the interplay of image and instancy to an exquisite and dangerous perfec-
tion. And it brought them into the home. We are by now well into a second generation of children for
whom television has been their first and most accessible teacher and, for many, their most reliable com-
panion and friend.... There is no audience so young that it is barred from television. There is no poverty
so abject that it must forgo television. There is no education so exalted that it is not modified by television.
And most important of all, there is no subject of public interest-politics, news, education, religion, sci-
ence, sports that does not find its way to television. Which means that all public understanding of these
subjects is shaped by the biases of television.

This passage contains all of the following stylistic devices except__.
a. paradox
b. polysyndeton
c. asyndeton
d. metaphor
e. anaphora