2024 Holiday Literary Devices Competition

"11 Pipers Piping, 10 Lords a Leaping... 8 Maids a Milking, 7 Swans a Swimming... and a Partridge in a Pear Tree ."

"Look at Frosty go.  Thumpety thump, thump, thumpety thump, thump, over the hills of snow."

"Christmas Eve will find me where the love light gleams. I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams."

"The stars in the sky looked down where He lay. The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay."

In "All I Want for Christmas is You," Mariah Carey sings "And the sound of laughter fills the air."

"Follow me in merry measure, Fa la la la la la la la!"

"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose."

"And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof, the prancing, the pawing of each little hoof"

". . .The candles are burning low. One for each night, they shed a sweet light to remind us of days long ago."

"Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, it loves to dance and spin. A happy game of dreidel, come play now let's begin."

"City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style"

Dickens describes Scrooge to be a "wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!"

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

"You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel Mr. Grinch! You're a bad banana with the greasy black peel."

Dickens writes, "Scrooge was hard, and sharp as a flint."

"And then away went Rudolph, whizzin' like a Saber jet"

"I played my drum for Him pa rum pa pum pum"

"Truly He taught us to love one another. His law is love and His gospel is peace."

"Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree for me; Been an awful good girl."

"Stop lights, blink a bright red and green as the shoppers rush home with their treasures. Hear the snow crunch. . ."

"The choir of children sing their song. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding!"

"We'll be singing the songs we love to sing without a single stop. At the fireplace while we watch the chestnuts Pop!"

"We're snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be."

"Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening. A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight. . ."