A Christmas Carol - Literary Devices

“The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek”

“But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!”

Fred: "Merry Christmas, uncle!" Scrooge: "Humbug!"

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.”

"the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried“I know him! Marley's Ghost!” and fell again...."

“He carried his own low temperature always about with him”

"I ware the chains I forged in life"

"It was bleak biting weather"

“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern”

"Tell me what man that was... lying dead"

"a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard"

"The Spirit stood among the graves and pointed down at one"

"expect the first [ghost] tomorrow, when the bell tolls one"

"Scrooge sat down... and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be"

“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster”