A Christmas Carol - Literary Devices

“No wind that blew was bitterer than he"

“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire” S1

“Scrooge was the ogre go the family” S3

"a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching. covetous old sinner!"

“The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek” S1

“He carried his own low temperature always about with him” S1

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.” S1

“Bright gleaming berries glistened”

The heaviest rain & snow&hail&sleet could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect

“The phantom spread its robe before him a moment like a wing”

but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar."

“the lamp who ran before dotting the dusky street with specks of the light laughed out loud"

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

“Old Marley was dead as a door nail” S1

"... Angelic messengers descending through the air on clouds like feather-beds..."

“But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!” S1

"it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses"

“For the had been two kindred spirits” S1

"The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slyly down at Scrooge

“the houses opposite were mere phantoms” S1

"It was bleak biting weather" S1

the clouds with tremulous vibrations as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up ther

holly mistletoe&ivy reflected back the light as if so many lil mirrors had been scattered there

“The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business”

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

“the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled.”

“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster” S1

“Home is like heaven”

“the wind whispered through the trees”

“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern” S1