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“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased”
Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Symbolism
Metaphor
Alliteration
“He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father”
Narrator
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Emotive language
"A merrier Christmas, Bob, than I have given you, for many a year! I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family”
Scrooge
Contrast
Hyperbole
Emotive language
“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster
Narrator
Imagery
Metaphor
Alliteration
Sibilance
“The happiness he gives it is quite as great as it cost a fortune”
Scrooge
Antithesis
Hyperbole
“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it”
Jacob Marley
Metaphor
Repitition
Imagery
"Ali Baba! ... at the Gate of Damascus ...
Robinson Crusoe"
Scrooge
Parallelism
"Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before,"tell me if Tiny Tim will live."
Scrooge
Emotive language
Imperative
“father is so much kinder than he used to be, that homes like heaven”
Fan
Simile
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Christian terminology
“If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Scrooge
Irony
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Dehumanisation
“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh ... His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him”
Narrator
Irony
Personification
Note
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